XCore Exchange

I've been following XMOS for a while.

Many of the discussions we're seeing on the forums regarding directions, openness, etc are things I've written about.

In reverse chronological order (most recent first), here are a few XMOS-related posts on my blog. I'd love to discuss any/all of these ideas and concepts (no-one likes a write-only blog!).

XMOS, Customers and Openness

http://blog.xfund.com/2011/03/08/your-c ... help-them/

Open Source Open Forum

http://blog.xfund.com/2011/03/11/open-s ... pen-forum/

XMOS and FPGAs

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/07/17/xmos-and-fpgas/

The Future of XC

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/06/22/the-future-of-xc-xmos/

Interesting Altera/XMOS analysis

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/24/altera-justifies-xmos/

Short-term and Long-term Visions for XMOS

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/07/short- ... m-visions/

Product Marketing and early Sales Suggestions

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/06/xmos-c ... decisions/

Logic Behind XMOS

http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/02/electronics-basics/
http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/02/hardwa ... hitecture/
http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/02/more-architecture/
http://blog.xfund.com/2010/02/03/the-story/

Dear Jonathan,

thank you for this discussion starter. I have read through your blogs and while I currently work for a company that is likely to do too much marketing, I wholeheartedly agree with you that one of the things I am missing are statements of direction or the "vision statement" (even though I use this expression extremely sparingly - a former chancellor of my country once said that people that have visions should go see a doctor).

I do have a product idea that I want to realize and I am still at the early stage of choosing the right hardware platform to base it on. And while one can over-market very quickly, I would like to see some statement of what XMOS is working on. I do understand that as a company XMOS must strike a balance between openness and the right timing of announcements, however in my opinion a little more openness and forward-looking statements can make the difference between choosing the XMOS platform over some of its competitors.

And once again, thanks for the interesting read and the discussion starter.

/Dirk

- a former chancellor of my country once said that people that have visions should go see a doctor

Ah, Helmut Schmidt said this.. :)