Business Models: Brainstorming

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Business Models: Brainstorming

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XMOS believes that it enables a generation of designers and entrepreneurs to create innovative products and businesses based around its technology.

So what businesses could we see emerging?

Clearly, there's scope for board development - either in the general purpose development kit market, or in more specialized markets. SparkFun have led the way by demonstrating their new XS1-L1 development kit (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc ... ts_id=9428).

Skilled XC design consultancies - either developing application-specific IP, or taking general contracts from customers, seems an inevitability.

There's also scope for the chipless fabless companies to emerge: companies that program XMOS chips with application-specific IP and sell the chips as their own custom chips, possibly with custom branding. In this respect, the XMOS technology enables the creation of high-value semiconductor companies that are efficient at both low and high volume for a fraction of the typical ASIC startup cost.

The most interesting thing is that the technology really brings hardware and consumer electronic product entrepreneurship within the range of software engineers and angel investors. Building prototypes takes weeks or months in software rather than years and millions of dollars invested in custom hardware.

Be keen to hear what others think about the business models of the entrepreneurial and business ecology based around XMOS.


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With the threaded multi-core chips in play I think there is great room for several innovative and new product ideas that can emerge from being readily accessible to the "hobby" community.

UAV developement (An idea I may actually take down the road) is well suited for a multi core XMOS chip

Robotic Localization and Mapping also benefits greatly from this type of hardware as opposed to the current uC choices on a hobby level.

XMOS chips and dev kits have the potential to really revolutionize the market not just from the large corporate installations and uses but also in the hobby realm. There are a tons of benefits to using multi-threaded, multi-core chips. The technology is getting more and more mature by the month and the community of users is also growing. Once "critical mass" is achieved I think XMOS and XMOS related business' will really start to skyrocket
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Post by jason »

I am far too excited about robotics and UAV's. I really need to dabble more in the electronics side of things so I can make my autonomous helicopter that I have wanted to do for a while now...
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Post by Pablo »

Seems like XMOS could become Arduino on steroids and as such it could begin to take hold in mainstream commercial applications. Arduino is all about usability and innovation. So is XMOS.

What would it take to incorporate XC into Python scripting or Android ? Such a development could expand the audience for XMOS and make it more modern, I think.

Is this a silly idea ?
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Post by Folknology »

Actually my Amino project aims to build an 'Arduino on steroids..' I am working on the first of the dev board implementation right now, Its definitely now a silly idea!

What do you mean by the python/android comment, can you expand? Or are you just suggesting making it attractive for those developers in those areas?

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Post by jonathan »

Folknology wrote:Its definitely now a silly idea!
Great typo!

I'm also interested by the Python comment. Not sure whether you mean making XC more general-purpose - as an implementation language for another platform, or if you mean getting some other languages running on the XMOS devices.
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Post by Folknology »

Lol good catch Jonathan

Should have read "is definitely not a silly idea" just to clear things up , but I won't edit the post its kinda of amusing like that ;-)

By the way the Amino project (like Arduino) does aim to pull in newbies from other programming backgrounds (i.e. non-embedded etc..) so that cold certainly include pythonestas & rubyists.. But I'm not sure that is what Pablo meant?
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Post by errordeveloper »

just to mention again, Lisp could be good choice.

call it LX fo "Lisp XCore", cause XLisp already exists ..

this is a good link: http://armpit.sourceforge.net/ ;)
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Post by shawn »

businessmodels brainstorms or what was this thread about?
CSCSCS::custumer: service, support, satifaction
Spend 5:1 avertisement to market cap
WUW/6thsense
XGrid
Xlinkers do interupts, Xcore do events, Xrouters do transacts
Sideband blocking, evasion
3Dbugger
Anti-fuse Burner
Animal language translator (no, really, its not new, John Lilly's, JANUS computer)
Derivatives designer
NKS
Edge of Earth satellites
Sell MS my old crows with salt spinkled, just a pinch.
Become facist and sell cores forcefully like the big guys.
Take Xmos Public
Marry the daughters of all compitition, peace love inheritence. (win,win,win)
Use Xcore to takeover the internet. repackage it all to me.
$Say "Greed is Good" Accumalate Goto$
Use Xcore to create wireless not cell bound, but a global field, then, throw out the internet.
Special robotics
EDA tools
Write books on the Xcore
Tell IBM Gates Stole DEC ip in DOS not QDOS then emerge as the Victor
Use Xcores to make cartoon movie maker, then make cartoon.
Make a movie about said boss with said chip and said storys, fake the drama.
Restore the faith, land on community chest, pass go, get beans.
Climb the giant beanstack get goose, harp and gold, kill the giant.
Break the infinte loop, free there souls.


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shawn wrote:businessmodels brainstorms or what was this thread about?
CSCSCS::custumer: service, support, satifaction
Spend 5:1 avertisement to market cap
WUW/6thsense
XGrid
Xlinkers do interupts, Xcore do events, Xrouters do transacts
Sideband blocking, evassion
3Dbugger
Anti-fuse Burner
Animal language translator (no, really, its not new, John Lilly's, JANUS computer)
Derivatives designer
NKS
Edge of Earth satellites
Sell MS my old crows with salt spinkled, just a pinch.
Become facist and sell cores forcefully like the big guys.
Take Xmos Public
Marry the daughters of all compitition, peace love inheritence. (win,win,win)
Use Xcore to takeover the internet. repackage it all to me.
$Say "Greed is Good" Accumalate Goto$
Use Xcore to create wireless not cell bound, but a global field, then, throw out the internet.
Special robotics
EDA tools
Write books on the Xcore
Tell IBM Gates Stole DEC ip in DOS not QDOS then emerge as the Victor
Use Xcores to make cartoon movie maker, then make cartoon.
Make a movie about said boss with said chip and said storys, fake the drama.
Restore the faith, land on community chest, pass go, get beans.
Climb the giant beanstack get goose, harp and gold, kill the giant.
Break the infinte loop, free there souls.


more LATER
Shawn
One last one before I sleep...
EinsteinEmail
Thats right you guessed it, start this project ASAP...
For those times for when someone asks "what's your address"
And you say "you know! I emailed it to you yesterday."
when they say "no" you send said email with Einstein.
Einstein then creates a quantum event traversing the flow of
the interconnect . Einstein slips said email in box.
Your friends invarriance starts to breakdown. realizing this you
you suggest checking agian : ) before checking ( : suddenly !
someone has mail. You just smile and hand your friend an
Einstien.biz card w/said address and walk away.

Later,
Shawn
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