Do you!?
It's called The Innovators Market and labeled as the Fragmented 46%.
Processor marketshare in revenue -- it looks like one big circle to us?!
Once upon a time in a land far away one could buy simple terminals, in fact that was all one could buy. Today, the world is more complex but the simple need still exists. Take the inventor in his lab, he is monitoring processes and he just wants to send the data to a printer or he wants to scan in a record of an experiment. To do that simple task he is forced to buy a PC and since money and space is at a premium this is an issue. He must ask himself, do I spend money to further research or do I spend excess money monitoring?
Well, that is what Noël did, but wait...
Since he is an inventor of the software persuasion he looks around the lab to see several parts he can marry, write some code and solve the problem right now. He has an EFIKA stand alone computer board, an Altera evaluation board and a flat panel display. A couple of hours later he has his simple terminal. It exactly meets his requirements without overkill, but more importantly since it exists and it is easy to modify soon it is being used as a part of his test setup. It automatically logs and alarms on critical parameters precisely meeting his requirements and wants. Thus the little simple terminal breeds a series of task specific ways to speed up his research.
Project 337 is looking good!
The EFIKA to the rescue means that he can live happily ever after, well at least it gives Noël more time to look for the right princess. No grimm faces here! Great project Noël!
Just to make sure we have a happy ending today (sorry about yesterday, we were busy shipping the EFIKA), we should mention that XGI sells an SVGA display dongle that connects to an USB2 port. The driver for it is already in the Linux kernel. It works flawlessly on the EFIKA.
As you know, we are working with XGI...
XGI implements hardware accelerated 3D (faster, bigger resolutions). XGI implements hardware accelerated video playback (saves lots of CPU time = saves lots of power!). XGI has something for the EFIKA...
Hey Noël!
You know what you doing.
Keep up the good work!
我々の未来に希望を・・・
たのむぞ。ＺＩＧ！！
Go Zig!
References (Main screen turn on):
Problem/Solution
Problem/Solution II
Every Developer Needs a Desktop
Can You Hear Me Now?!
2 comments:
Problem/Solution
This is so f*cking obvious that I found Freescale scrapping CodeWarrior support for Macs baffling.. and this was before Apple announced the shift to Intel. Wtf? What on earth were Freescale/Motorola thinking?
Microsoft of all companies thought that Power Mac G5 was a suitable development platform for Xbox 360.. I think this is hillarious. If PPC development flopped, it isn't Apples fault, they were pretty much the only one making affordable and usable boxes, when everyone else jumping ship including IBM and Motorola. Oooh.. and the Cell dev-kits? x86! Hello?! Is it just me and Genesi that think this is as backwards as it can get?
All your base are belong to us! :)
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