Hi Larry Producing chips in a fabless fashion is quite simple 1) You create the design 2) You send the design off to a fab to be made Even many of the chips from traditional manufacturers are now made in “third party” fabs such as TSMC. Hardly surprising when a state of the art fab is some $7B. XMOS chips are effectively fabless. The Kalray chip seems to have a fair bit of inheritance from the ST VLIW stuff that superceded the transputer, which is hardly surprising since most of the staff CVs are ex ST/ST-Ericsson. Producing the chips is not cheap, because of mask costs. However, there are low volume schemes whereby several customers chips are put on the same wafer to cut costs. Tony Gore Aspen Enterprises Limited email tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx tel +44-1278-761000 FAX +44-1278-760006 GSM +44-7768-598570 URL: www.aspen.uk.com Registered in England and Wales no. 3055963 Reg.Office Aspen House, Burton Row, Brent Knoll, Somerset TA9 4BW. UK From: Mailing List Robot [mailto:sympa@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Dickson I poked around and found which had some details but no data sheet. My guess is that their design hasn't totally gelled. How does one go about producing chips in a "fabless" fashion? Is each prototype just a one-off, like ordering boards? Larry Dickson On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:35 AM, ael <A.E.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:27:32PM +0100, Herman Roebbers wrote: Hi,
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