[Openchrome-users] Missing VIA specs?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:08, Soeren D. Schulze wrote:

> Did you mention you were going to buy a few thousand boards in your  
> request?

yeah.  I think the issue might have been that I didn't have a PO in  
hand for $200K, just a plan to have one.  I've seen similar problems  
in companies which operate on commission structures, but I have no  
idea if that applies here.

> I cannot imagine that people at Via care so little about their  
> customers and wait 6 weeks.

I just happened to see a press release on linuxdevices.com with an e- 
mail address that I hadn't tried, and got through to somebody in the  
wrong department who forwarded me along to the correct internal  
person.  In all fairness, the people handling the ultra-low-voltage  
parts responded in a few days' time.

> They may also think NDAs are not a problem for you.

I explained the situation to the sales guy, that I wanted to keep  
things neat and clean and that the product I'm working on would be  
based on open source software and I didn't want to muddy the waters  
at this point.  They even publish similar specs on at least one of  
their other chipsets, but couldn't give me a matrix so I could chose  
the most appropriate chipset for my needs (I was looking for the  
lowest cost that would meet the spec), so he suggested I buy one of  
each.  I wouldn't want to shop for a truck with sufficient horsepower  
using this model.

> here are three cases that I can imagine (greater number means worse  
> for us):
>
> 1. Via does not see the issue.
> 2. Via has some special business strategy.
> 3. Via is itself bound to NDAs so it is not allowed to publish  
> anything.

Very interesting list.  If it's #3, could part of the problem be that  
we're talking to Via when we should be talking to S3, and Via is just  
stuck in the middle?

-Bill

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