[vidarh]

It's not meant to compete with a desktop PC, or with a mass produced GPU.

It's meant to be a development platform for solutions based on their architecture and for people to get familiar with the development model, with an existing 64-core version of their chip and future versions intended to put 1000+ cores on a board as the eventual target.

That it's also a reasonably capable platform to run Linux on (on the ARM chip) so you can do development directly on the board is an added bonus.

[wmf]

If the architecture is not good then people don't want to get familiar with it. I'm skeptical that even an "eventual" version with hundreds of cores would be worth using.

[vidarh]

Well, clearly at least 3700 people want to get familiar with it based on the number of backers so far, which is pretty good for a niche platform like this.

We'll find out soon enough.