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3D printing high performance (competitive with state of the art TSCM) chips is probably not for this century. I’m hoping for an open source implementation that
by tambourine_man 6y ago
3D printing high performance (competitive with state of the art TSCM) chips is probably not for this century.
I’m hoping for an open source implementation that can be backed by a company or crowdsourced, manufactured at scale and auditioned by the community.
This could happen this decade and would be transformative.
- vidarh 6y agoSomething that could allow people to print chips competitive with stuff you can run on present-day FPGAs would already be transformative (and yes, I recognise 3d printing is far off achieving anything like that as well, but the point is it doesn't need to compete with the state of the art to be highly useful for many use-cases).
- glhaynes 6y agoWhat use-case would that satisfy better than a current FPGA?
- lallysingh 6y agoYou want more than one and don't want to pay FPGA money for each one.
- vidarh 6y agoWhile much smaller in volume, there's also a whole sub-culture of people opposed to "emulation", a subset of which sees FPGA's as borderline "cheating", and/or who would otherwise love to print pin-compatible replacements for old chips. Heck, even being capable of printing replacements for 6581/8580 (SID - sound chip from Commodore 64) or 6526 (IO chips used in the C64 and others that were notorious for burning out) would get a whole lot of retro-enthusiasts excited, as there are a bunch of FPGA reproductions of the SID which are way overkill. Doing that would be possible by matching processes that were getting dated by 1980...