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An Interview with Bunnie Huang - Bunnie's Bibelot Bonification

The Amp Hour · 28 Feb 2012 · 1h 19m · Episode 84

What this episode covers

Bunnie Huang, hardware designer behind the Chumby and NeTV, discusses his career trajectory from Silicon Graphics to founding Chumby and his recent work on the NeTV. He explains the technical and legal challenges of the NeTV, specifically how he used an FPGA to inject pixels into encrypted HDMI streams to bypass DMCA restrictions without decrypting the content. Huang also contrasts his business decisions, such as using Marvell chips with NDAs for Chumby versus using open-source-friendly Freescale chips for his hacker boards, and details his strategy for managing manufacturing in Shenzhen from Singapore.

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early-stage companies

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Companies
Silicon Graphics, Luxtera, No Starch Press, Wiley, Microsoft, EFF
Products
Chumby, NeTV, Xbox
Chips
Marvell, Freescale, Xilinx, Altera

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