nice fake video.. photoshopped nand chips. I've never seen a chip destroy itself in that manner, as they've shown.

The chip itself is always in the dead center of the carrier, nand flash is bigger than most chips, but still centered in the carrier package. usually the chips overheat, expand the air in the packaging and blow a single crack or blow the top off. not multiple swirly cracks like they've shown for the oohhh..awwww... effect.

And the silkscreen is distorted and swirled too. That just won't happen and it's a smoking gun. Would you trust your data with a company from China that is obviously faking its advertising in such a despicable way?

So much conversation about a black dot crossing a yellow dot.

Never kill my father.

He built an ARMv5 emulator for an 8-bit AVR.

OK, it's tedious, and a lot of work, but it's not the amazing feat that everyone here seems to think it is... he didn't port Linux to run on an 8-bit micro. He instead built a PXA255 SOC system emulator, that runs on AVR.

A skilled programmer can build an emulator for any architecture they are intimately familiar with.

OK, it's an amazing feat. Dimity, certainly has the skills.

But if I knew ARM as well as he does (which I don't) then I can write an ARM emulator for my Altair 8800b. (Yes, I still have one). After that, my Altair can run Linux too. What I am familiar with is SPARC v8, MIPs, and POWERPC. I developed on SPARC processors in the 90's, and I have written a PPC emulator myself, and I have been part of the PearPC project too in it's past. So perhaps from my background I am less impressed than most others here seem to be.

However, good on him.. :) It's still an accomplished feat. I just think that everyone here is praising too much, and perhaps its not what they think it is.

And yes, I admit I'm a little jelly because I don't blog about what I do now or what I have accomplished in the past, but I see myself on the same or better skill level than those who do blog and get all the coverage. :) I'm old school.. I don't blog anything.

-- cheers!

Shouldn't he get a free game at 100?

He took source code. Even I didn't read the article, but I gleaned that from the summary and other comments.
Source code, in most jurisdictions, (perhaps even ALL jurisdictions) is considered property: intellectual property.

...maybe it was the Destiny.

Yeah I'm pretty bummed that they chose Broadcom. It's ARM, and there's plenty of vendors.

I'm just guessing, but perhaps another more "open" choice would have added $10 to the cost, and maybe they didn't want to go there, if their price target
was firm.

I'm a low id guy on slashdot.. just woke from a long coma... what's a social network?

Then they will get you with some DMCA violation next for reverse engineering how it's hooked up, and you can be sure they will try to make it encrypted and non-circumventable (at least in the USA)