Re: Doing a custom design

>On Aug 22, 2004, at 8:33 PM, jbass-/[email protected] wrote:
>
>Is there a market for these devices? Considering their very specialized use 
>there are only a few potential markets. The most promising might be the 
>stats addicts. How much are they willing to pay for a stats boost? Will 
>they pre-pay to fund the R&D and production costs?
And with that question we started one-and-a-half month ago. Yes, it's 
possible. No, there most likely isn't enough funding unless you're working 
for the nsa or a total ***. Maybe people can be interested if we're not 
talking about keys but about curing cancer.
Reprogrammable really helps. If PCI-based cards with a (couple of) FPGA will 
give somewhat lower results, but people can (later) reprogram them with a 
binary for say, folding@home, there maybe ís a market.

- wacco

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