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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 takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:07AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> 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.