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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Maksim" data-source="post: 82912" data-attributes="member: 1973"><p>Re: Expansion Slot Idea</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or perhaps a bunch of us could pool our money to buy a console to do a tear down a la ifiixit.com. I'm curious how much is COTS and how much is custom silicon. At 20,000-50,000 units it's not necessarily clear which way would be cheaper to go. If the chips are COTS and the tops haven't been sanded off or potted then it would be fairly trivial to get a rough outline of what's going on. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find something like Xilinx FPGA's inside control a lot of the i/o and dedicated DSP's doing the heavy lifting.</p><p></p><p>I'd throw in $20. Would another 150 people do the same?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Maksim, post: 82912, member: 1973"] Re: Expansion Slot Idea Or perhaps a bunch of us could pool our money to buy a console to do a tear down a la ifiixit.com. I'm curious how much is COTS and how much is custom silicon. At 20,000-50,000 units it's not necessarily clear which way would be cheaper to go. If the chips are COTS and the tops haven't been sanded off or potted then it would be fairly trivial to get a rough outline of what's going on. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find something like Xilinx FPGA's inside control a lot of the i/o and dedicated DSP's doing the heavy lifting. I'd throw in $20. Would another 150 people do the same? [/QUOTE]
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