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Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor

posted by martyb on Friday September 04 2015, @06:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the MIAOW-sounds-like-one-cat-crying-out dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

While open-source hardware is already available for CPUs, researchers from the Vertical Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have announced at the Hot Chips Event in Cupertino, Calif., that they have created the first open source general-purpose graphics processor (GPGPU).

Called MIAOW, which stands for Many-core Integrated Accelerator Of the Waterdeep, the processor is a resistor-transistor logic implementation of AMD's open source Southern Islands instruction set architecture. The researchers published a white paper on the device.

The creation of MIAOW is the latest in a series of steps meant to keep processor development in step with Moore's Law, explains computer scientist Karu Sankaralingham, who leads the Wisconsin research group.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:49AM (#232562)

    Yes. They will even be optimized for playing cat videos.

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