Saturday, June 19, 2010

Who is useful in the gang of ate

According to a HomeGrid's press release there are ""Eight Silicon Vendors Align in Support of G.hn, United Nations' ITU-T's Next-Generation Wired Network Standard". So WTF does this mean (forgetting the question WTF is a UN standard good for?).

Let's examine the dirty 3/4 of a dozen:

  • Kawasaki Microelectronics - we will sleep with any customer who gives us money
  • TangoTec - we don't make chips, but Intel's Matt Theal thinks we do
  • DS2 - we are bankrupt but...fuck we are bankrupt
  • Ikanos - our ex-CEO should be in jail, but we are thinking about G.hn--sort of
  • Intel - we are Matt Theal and we don't plan to do any real work
  • Lantiq - we own the ITU process (hi Les and more) and we are the only company that might have a chip that will work
  • Sigma Designs - we do HPNA and HomePlug AV (someday) and MIMO and G.hn and...oh shit I forget...we do a lot of stuff some day
  • Texas Instruments - we thought they were severing free booze. Our DSP chips will never be G.hn or HomePlug AV

3 comments:

  1. Dear Hanfan,
    Are you going to update us on the serious legal problem, that P1901 now faces in its recirculation ballot? from what I heard this may cause the IEEE-SA to run a legal review of the draft. What will happen of P1901?

    hanfan fan....

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  2. So easy for you homepluggers to debunk this announcement. Look at yourself in the mirror. Let us do a fact check of your HomePlug silicon mfrs.
    1) Gigle: Whose products were so bad, that they had to removed from the shelves. Biggest shame for silicon mfr. Gigle is the spin-off of DS2. Was not loyal to DS2, good luck believing that they will be loyal to HomePlug. BTW, they don't even call themselves HomePlug company.
    2) Spidcom: No products in the market
    3) Arkados: Their name to fame is HP1.0
    4) Sigma Designs: ITU-T supporter developing HomePlug chipsets
    5) Atheros/Intellon: Only company delivering HomePlug chipsets.

    HomePlug is a one company pony show

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  3. Dear Anoonymouse,
    You forgot some vendors:

    STMicroelectronics - who cares about chips...they have Paola Bisaglia...

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