Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

[julesg]

re: . “Field Programmable” is the key phrase here. Cupria is in the field.

Ummm ... actually, no.

Field programmable means exactly what it says: It is programmed in the field. As opposed to being programmed in the wafer fab. A useful memory analogy is EPROM versus masked ROM. An EPROM is programmed in the "field" on an EPROM programming station while a masked ROM's program is "hard-wired" into the device during the fabrication process. Man+Dog can buy FPGA's in small quantities and do whatever they want with them. A dedicated design, manufactured in a wafer fab, requires extremely large volumes to be cost effective.

That is the crux of the disagreement between you and the realists. You believe RIM's "solution" will be widely deployed. The realist opinion is that it won't.