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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:37AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:37AM (#1017453)

    I really don't think they'll add secret backdoors to them either

    Even if they do, they'll be easy enough for everyone to spot, analyze and publish the details of.

    Also: backdoor on custom silicon doesn't mean as much as it does in a GPCPU.

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