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

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: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:16AM (6 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:16AM (#1017416) Journal

    As for who will actually make the chips, Google, and its partner efabless, chose SkyWater Technology Foundry, which was spun out of Cypress Semiconductor. A production run is scheduled for November this year, and another in early 2021, and more after.

    Throwing some business their way could be a sign that Google is interested in 3DSoC [ieee.org].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:35AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:35AM (#1017452)

    > Google is interested in 3DSoC [ieee.org].

    Could be. But it's certain that takyon is interested in 3D silicon...

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:39AM (3 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:39AM (#1017455) Journal

      Yes. I don't want to see Moore slaw hit a brick wall within the next 10 years.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by coolgopher on Tuesday July 07 2020, @02:47AM (2 children)

        by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @02:47AM (#1017479)

        Actually, I think that would be a good thing. We'd have a least a decade of two where we'd be able to compensate by unbloating the software instead.

        • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:07AM (1 child)

          by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:07AM (#1017483) Journal

          Nah, I'll take the orders of magnitude "free lunch" speedup first. There's nothing stopping you from writing or running efficient code, except maybe your bosses and the world at large.

          Don't forget that there is also energy efficiency to be gained by moving memory closer to cores, not just performance, and the 3D approach will be beneficial to neuromorphic computing.

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          • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:17AM

            by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:17AM (#1017487)

            I'd like both, but the state of software isn't going to improve while hardware gains can cover for sloppy coding.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:27AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:27AM (#1017491) Journal

    Throwing some business their way

    Adverts for nothing
    And your chips for free

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