SiCortex hardware designs - anyone buy them yet?

[Danny]

SiCortex has anyone bought the SiCortex hardware designs?

Latest I could find on the web indicated no one has yet:
http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/04/sicortex-ip-still-on-the-shelf/

My employer is working with a very Free Software friendly Chinese
company, Lemote - http://www.lemote.com/english/ - and it strikes me
that they may be interested in the technology, as they primarily use a
chinese-designed mipsel processor, the loongson, in their computers.

If this would be of interest to someone involved in the sale process,
I can pass the idea (along with the best person/list to contact, if
you know that) along to Lemote's CEO.

If it ever gets to the point that donating to a 501(c)(3) would be
something the owners of the hardware design would want to do, most
likely one of http://fsf.org http://softwarefreedom.org or
http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ would be interested in
receiving such a donation.

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["C. Bergström"]

Danny wrote:
> SiCortex has anyone bought the SiCortex hardware designs?
>
> Latest I could find on the web indicated no one has yet:
> http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/04/sicortex-ip-still-on-the-shelf/
>
> My employer is working with a very Free Software friendly Chinese
> company, Lemote - http://www.lemote.com/english/ - and it strikes me
> that they may be interested in the technology, as they primarily use a
> chinese-designed mipsel processor, the loongson, in their computers.
>
> If this would be of interest to someone involved in the sale process,
> I can pass the idea (along with the best person/list to contact, if
> you know that) along to Lemote's CEO.
>
> If it ever gets to the point that donating to a 501(c)(3) would be
> something the owners of the hardware design would want to do, most
> likely one of http://fsf.org http://softwarefreedom.org or
> http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ would be interested in
> receiving such a donation.
>

Not to pop your bubble, but last I heard they were asking $10M

This is not to mention the cost involved to actually make something
useful afterwards