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Title    Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor
Date    Friday September 04 2015, @06:15PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the MIAOW-sounds-like-one-cat-crying-out dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/09/04/0325232

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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