On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:24 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like a con job, EXCEPT that there were some very reputable names > (both persons and institutions) linked to it. > IMO a BOM price of $35 would be barely acheivable, given a massive > and immediate investments in a semi conductor and LCD fab.
An interesting part in the video(s) available of the minister showing off the device is a statement from him that initially the manufacturing would be based out of Taiwan (where the infrastructure is already present to do such mass manufacture) and thereon look towards building capabilities in India. Without any idea of the specification and, the quantum of subsidy that the GoI is planning to put in, it might be difficult to arrive at a conclusion on the $35 price. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
