from Raquel and Bill <bbrv@genesi-usa.com>
to Bryars Michael <Michael.Bryars@freescale.com>
cc max@cherrypal.com,
Graham@cherrypal.com,
Vipool Vora <vipool@cherrypal.com>,
Dave Mothersole <dmothersole@genesi-usa.com>,
Finch Todd <todd.finch@freescale.com>
bcc Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck <rvbb@genesi-usa.com>,
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
date Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:05 AM
subject Re: FW: NDAGenesi
mailed-by genesi-usa.com
hide details 6/18/08
Thanks Mike.
Max, if you can print and fax back the NDA to the number below, we
will get out some materials to you quickly. Alternatively, we can use
the information we collected from Companies House in the UK (Company
No. 06598811, CHERRYPAL LTD., 21 May 2008) to fill in the appropriate
information for you, sign it ourselves and fax it to you for you to
sign and send back. Please email us a fax number if you want to go
this way.
By way of further introduction and consideration, please allow us to
comment in more detail on some of the items in your press release and
a related article written by journalist Ashlee Vance:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=869529
256GB of DDR2 DRAM! Wow! _GB_ :)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/
1. The power consumption for a device based on the MPC5121E will be
more than 2W. The RAM on the MPC5200B-based EFIKA that we currently
ship generates 2.5W (the 5200B is also a part 'owned' by Mike).
Powering the flash chip and a wireless connection will add an
additional load. The processor might squeeze in at 2W, but not the
complete system.
2. What system do you have that boots in 20 seconds? Our EFIKA takes a
bit less than a minute to boot and we have stripped back openSUSE to a
bare minimum. The ThinPC that THTF showed at CES did not use a 5121E.
We hope you know that and they have not deceived you. We have
non-Linux operating systems that boot in less than 20 seconds, but
Linux will not boot this fast in any form on the 5200B or the 5121E.
Mike will affirm we have drawn the best performance from the 5121E ADS
as any company.
3. From the Register article from Ashlee Vance: "When we posted this
idea to Seybold, his look indicated that we'd got it all wrong. The
man sees CherryPal as a true PC. Period. And it's going to run
software faster than your Vista or ? dare we say it ? Mac OS X-addled
machine."
The 5121E is not going to run traditional Office-like software faster
than Vista (at least not with Linux). While you can run Office
applications, even with 256MB and a stripped down version of Linux,
OpenOffice runs slowly. Again, we hope THTF has not mislead you.
4. Also, with respect to the Register article: there is no chance of
running iTunes or decrypting (legally) DRM-enabled tracks downloaded
from another system. Apple's DAAP protocol is also closed. In every
revision of iTunes they have changed the protocol slightly so the open
source versions do not work well. Any non-Apple sanctioned device will
not even relay music from a valid iTunes source without problems.
FYI, we are quite familiar with Songbird.
5. Finally, to say that a 5121E based device will be more powerful
than the EeePC is dangerous. The original EeePC has a 900MHz Celeron-M
with a 256kb L2 cache. It has 512MB of RAM. It has Intel UMA graphics
which have a PowerVR *desktop* processor core. The EeePC has enough
ability to easily play a DVD movie. This is more of a challenge for
the 5121E. The PowerVR graphic core found in the 5121E is the MBX
Lite, which is not as powerful.
Please don't think this all too negative. We just want to set
expectations properly from the beginning. We understand what you want
to do and how you seek to position Cherrypal. We think we can help
you make this happen and look forward to our discussions Friday.
BTW, we know Ashlee Vance. Ashlee spoke with us before he published
this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/solaris_on_power/
We would encourage you to follow the links on this page:
http://www.genesi-usa.com/partners.php
We will have more to forward with a signed NDA.
Best regards,
R&B
