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Post by Philippe-Aubert »

Interestingly, if Creamware purchased 1 million of Sharc DSP from analog devices (it seems that Creamware use the first Sharc generation, AD is now to the third generation, 160Mhz? not sure), we can say that each DSP just cost 10 bucks ...

Some sort of anecdotes ... useless but funny.

In fact, I should say ... the DSP are around 10$US (from the analog device website) surely more (twice?), if you get less than 1 million of DSP.

In comparison with other DSP pci cards such as dSpace (for control prototyping and various DSP desing in control engineering), creamware -- as a dsp card -- is not expensive ... in fact, creamware products are pretty cheap. I know that a dSpace card with a single DSP at 500Mhz is arround 10000$CAN + software license.

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Post by voidar »

That's 10 million bucks.
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Post by Billy goat gruff »

Maybe they get a small discount for cash.
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Post by astroman »

probably they are happy to get some at all - and that certainly only for cash :grin:
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Post by voidar »

Discounts are normal when buying in large quantities. Maybe even as low as 1/4.
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Post by Starco »

Everyone knows that the price of hardware components has very little to do with the price of professional audio cards. Otherwise a Protools HD3 ACCEL system would cost around 300 USD!
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Post by Nestor »

But... somebody have to pay for their work too.

Think about some statues in the Loubre at Paris, well, they can cost thousands of dollars each, and they are nevertheless a piece of stone...

What you are paying for it's not the DSP devices themselves, but the "card concept". If it was just like that... believe me, I woudl be saving money to get a least 100 of those DSP and would have the largest DSP card in the world :lol:
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