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anyway, i remind to you and to all here that it was adapteva to plan 1024 cores for 2014 and 16384 cores for 2022, please see the included pic.
So, you questions should be directed to adapteva, and the questions should be similar to "why you plan/promise something that is not realistic to be done?".
On my own, i newer promise what I am not able to do and if i see someone (than is not a marketing man but a tech man) that say "in 2014 there will be 1024 cores" I am so naive to believe. Thanks to open my eyes on this totally not realistic promise.
cheers.
Statistics: Posted by roberto — Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:26 pm
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a rant about kickstarter: on crowd-funding the usual procedure is to first give away the hardware for production-cost, then sell them for a slightly higher cost. if you take a loan from a bank, the usual procedure is to sell for extremely high price to maximize the sales of both, the new product and the products you are known for and which are the reason your bank did give you a loan in the first place. only when the loan is paid you can half that price. and only when the old product has lost its appeal you can set price to what the old thing did cost. why are there even those 2 procedures? true, crowd-funders do take a risk, even if they get what they paid for there is no guarantee it'll be bug-free. on the other hand same risk you take when you buy intel's newest invention at a time where the price is still high. before there were 2 kinds of customers, rich ones who did take risk and high price, basically serving as beta-testers, and the wide masses who buy stuff the rich ones did throw away. through kickstarter we have a huge price-dumping in that area, now rich ones buy and sell at a low price, it simply doesn't make sense anymore to buy new stuff, better buy used hardware. it's well-tested, bugs are fixed through software, thanks to death of moor's law it isn't much slower than the new stuff anyway. now think what this means for a company like adapteva...
to be more to the point: if 1024 cores is what you want, you need to implement software which simulates parallella on various hardware and convince programmers to write their software for this emulator instead for the individual native platforms! at least that's what amd does. this way you lock programmers to the parallella platform, users obtain a well-tested platform and can switch over from their old hardware to epiphany 1024 once it's out. therefore investors who foresee such an opportunity will give adapteva the money and social-networking required for making it real. alternatively wait till a big chip-company buys adapteva and implements all that software development on its own. sadly such companies are too self-indulgent to accept any other technology than their own...
Statistics: Posted by piotr5 — Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:15 pm
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