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Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 06 2020, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the free-as-in-beer dept.

looorg writes:

Google is offering to produce free chips for you. They have to be open source, they are using 20 year old technology and you'll get 100 of them. Could someone reverse engineer a SID-chip and have Goggle start to crank those suckers out?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:07AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:07AM (#1017410)

    They take your open source design, add the backdoor for Mossad, then ship you 100 chips for free.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:48AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:48AM (#1017436)

    Joke's on them, they'll spend more to add the backdoor and the chips I would be using won't even know Internet exists.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:56AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:56AM (#1017439)

      Joke's on you... you won't even know they created a wireless link to the Internet using a protocol you haven't heard of.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:11AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:11AM (#1017442)

        Neutrino-Assisted Router Communication

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Kell on Tuesday July 07 2020, @06:58AM

          by Kell (292) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @06:58AM (#1017522)

          NARC for short.

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      • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:21AM (#1017489)

        Joke's on you... you won't even know they created a wireless link to the Internet using a protocol you haven't heard of.

        Inside an earthed Faraday cage, in the middle of nowhere, running on batteries charged from small solar panels.
        I don't think there's a physical process that can support, on a low energy budget, that wireless link and protocol I haven't heard of.

        So, yeah, joke's still on them.