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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:29AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:29AM (#1017425)

    " If you get a couple thousand young whipper snappers designing ICs then something useful has to come out of it."

    yeah, and we were told that if we had a million monkeys banging away at typewriters, shakespeare would pop out. well, we tried that with the internet and we got facebook, twitter, instagram, tik tok, etc. not much useful there...

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:22AM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:22AM (#1017449) Homepage Journal

    Shakespeare was a wiseass troll. He just had the stage as his medium rather than the Internet.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:37AM (#1017454)

      > Shakespeare was a wiseass troll.

      Shakespeare was a wiseass troll with legs.
      FTFY

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:43AM (2 children)

      by RS3 (6367) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:43AM (#1017496)

      Shakespeare was a wiseass troll.

      So he would've fit right in here. :)

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday July 07 2020, @05:35PM (1 child)

        by DECbot (832) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @05:35PM (#1017778) Journal

        Shakespeare was a wiseass troll.

        So he would've fit right in here. :)

        Please don't encourage this. When catching up with the latest techie news and commentary, I don't want to read a dialog of long form posts written in archaic rhyming iambic pentameter.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:24PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:24PM (#1017856)

          There once was an admin from Nantucket,
          Who chose his chips from a bucket.
          When surfing the net
          For illicit video to wget
          Prompted for ssl cert he said 'Ah fuck it.'