> Current chip tech is allowing for 45 and 32nm processing [and lower for ARM], so why are Avalon using 130 and BFL 65?
NRE costs - 130 and 65 is older tech, lots of capacity, less pressure and cheaper tooling.
I'm sure your friends at ARM are intimately familiar with this.
Even 32nm is hardly new though, and 130nm processing is losing a lot of its capacity.
Would ARM really be interested in serving such a small market?
ARM are small enough that this is a big enough market. As I remarked above, Avalon looking at $3m net in ONE round of chips.