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
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:19AM (2 children)
Now factor in the maximum die size: 10mm2.
I'm not sure about the Xeon but most of the Northwood [intel.com] products seem to have been based on a 131 mm2 die.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @04:44AM (1 child)
Emulating old systems seems to be the realm of Rpi 4 videos on youtube.
SNES machine that dual boots into a 2GS?
GS/OS would absolutely fly at 1000 times its original clock speed.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @05:06AM
RPi 4 just moved to a 28nm node, from 40nm. I'm guessing die size is somewhere between 80 and 100 mm2.
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