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5 days ago, 84 comments, a lot a lot a lot of skepticism against this company's ability to stay on a good path, not mess stuff up: https://news.ycombinator.com/
by rektide 5y ago
5 days ago, 84 comments, a lot a lot a lot of skepticism against this company's ability to stay on a good path, not mess stuff up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261574
here's to hoping! very good that they're trying to leverage public tooling/infrastructure. definitely an area that, with more competition, could reinvigorate & revitalize computing in powerful ways... especially if we start seeing more competition that also has high speed io too, imo, not quite present here at this ultra low price point.
the greenpak line seemed super super cool though. really cool ideas & products, way more mixed signal in a tiny cheap package than a classic fpga would have. i have little idea how capable or not it really is, given that it's a truly tiny product. but even if this never becomes a hundreds of cell line with decent io, it still feels like it has a ton going for it, and i hope it remains actively developed, very much, especially if communal tool chains get to play.
- Rochus 5y agoIt was not known then if and how open-source tools would be used.
- detaro 5y agothe comments there already mention that yosys is used, and this article does not go into any more detail about that.
- Rochus 5y agoThere were hopes and assumptions. A comment with specific facts was added two days ago, I just saw it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292603