Jeffery:
"Looks like $96 per 25K."
That's about what I would have guessed also. That is a good price if you are using the C6 for, say, a board with several analog modems, such as would be used in a Livingston box; it would replace several DSP chips and associated support and glue, so it could become cost effective in that environment.
As far as ADSL goes, I haven't figured out yet whether a $96 C6 chip, and I assume there would be only one, in an ADSL modem would make sense economically for the general market; when you consider that a connection from point to point (ie, my house to yours, direct, or, hospital A in Boston to hospital B in Bejing) would require FOUR boxes and thus FOUR C6's, your looking at about $1500 at full margin just for those chips; you wouldn't need other DSP chips with it, but you'd need other chips and parts, memory (lots of memory!), and so forth, so in the end, that modem to modem connection may cost several thousand dollars by the time you buy four boxes.
This is highly speculative on my part; I don't know as much about these figures as I'd like to in order to make this type of analysis; ah, heck, I don't know WHAT the heck I'm talking about! Tell the truth, Larry!
I wonder if you do; have any idea what the total wholesale cost to the manufacturer would be for a "typcial" ADSL setup, end to end, as well as for a modem? It seems to me that we still have a ways to go before xDSL is ready for prime time; the technology is there, or at least, almost there, but the cost is crucial; most people can find a way to come up with a couple hundred dollars or three to buy a drop-dead new modem, but, thousands of dollars? It's pretty hard to sneak thousands of dollars out of the family budget without getting caught, even if you get a modem which is faster than the net throughput of the net.
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