[Coco] Alterea and Intel

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Hopefully they will have the good sense to leave something that’s working
very well alone (Altera).  But maybe they’ll have some good ideas if they don’t.

I don’t know that you’d really want all that support circuitry in the FPGA, it would
raise the cost and turn a super flexible concept into something more specialized.
They do have FPGAs with an onboard hard processor (ARM) and associated
peripherals available already. <https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/features/cyv-soc-hps.html <https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/features/cyv-soc-hps.html>>

They are expensive ICs, starting at around $50 a chip for the lowest model.
Really powerful combination though.

- Ed


> On Jan 17, 2016, at 8:50 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> It will be very interesting to see what Intel does with Altera. They have always been good and shrinking systems down to chips or chip sets. Imagine the Nano DE0 as a single chip with processor and memory all built in including all the features of the DE0. Who knows what they will do, but could be very cool.
> 
>      From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Alterea and Intel
> 
> Further to this discussion, my business partner who is currently living 
> in the US just sent me a photo of the Altera sign across the road from 
> his office... it's now spelt "I.N.T.E.L." :)
> 
> Regards,
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