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[ASSI]

On Thursday 09 April 2015, 14:16:02, Nathanael King wrote:
> If you want a topic along those lines and are thinking about your A6:
> would anybody have the desire/interest/ability to get ASICs made and
> make a group sourced poly? Or at least a group sourced synth voicing
> chip with which we could do whatever we wanted.

You seem to greatly underestimate the NRE cost involved, even making the big 
assumption you can corral the skills to get something like that done right 
on the first try.

> My interest lies in digital (don't really see the point of the
> andromeda TBH) but considering the heart of the andromeda is the ASICs
> alesis engineered, it could be doable by group sourcing. And fun
> obviously :)

Nothing stops you to implement the same thing faster and cheaper using FPGA, 
then.

> If the bitcoin community is doing it, it can't be
> impossible.

Possible, yes.  Economically viable, most likely not.


Regards,
Achim.
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