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Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:23:36 GMT
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> 2. People still talking about LEGO making custom chips. I work for a company
> that designs, simulates, test and sell processor chips. The fabrication costs
> are dramatic. It costs millions for the first draft, and hundreds of thousands
> for any remakes just for fab. Now we use cutting edge fabrication so our costs
> are higher, but it is no trivial thing to make your own custom chip. LEGO is
> not a chip company, and does not have the right employee skills to take on
> designing their own chip.
The RCX contains a chip that says (c)LEGO, upper right in this picture:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/bot.jpg
What did Lego have to do with the creation of this chip? Does anyone
know what kind of chip this is? (I can't read the numbers on it)
Trevyn
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| (...) Well, let me make my position clear. I want more memory too, and I understand Danny and Steve B. want for more memory too. But you can't get somethin for nuttin'. My initial reaction was "64K !?!? You mean M right? DRAM is cheap!". But LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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