On Tue, 30 May 2017 03:23:32 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 3:41 PM, David Niklas doark@mail.com wrote:
So, how did the t-firefly group create their SOC if they could not get the CAD files?
who said that they could not get the CAD files from Rockchip? nobody said that they could not get the RK3399 CAD files from rockchip. i certainly didn't say that they could not get the CAD files from Rockchip. i also didn't see anyone *else* say that they could not get the CAD files from rockchip.
or any other source for that matter.
it may help you to understand how they got hold of them if (and i believe i am correct about this but it may need confirmation) you are aware that t-firefly is a trading name (or subsidary) of the extremely large company known as "Acer".
Acer as you are no doubt aware created the highly-successful mass-volume RK3288-based Chromebook.
Acer therefore qualifies, easily, in Rockchip's Management's eyes, as a "100k and above volumes" OEM 3rd party.
they'd be *more* than happy to give Acer absolutely anything they want.
Ah, now it makes sense. I was originally thinking that if you could not get hold of them then they should not be able to either.
Thanks, David