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Hardware is not software. Almost nothing alike. Surr it might happen for low-end/old chips with low margins but nothing cutting edge or competitive on the high-
by ywvcbk 2y ago
Hardware is not software. Almost nothing alike. Surr it might happen for low-end/old chips with low margins but nothing cutting edge or competitive on the high-end
- initramfs 2y agosoftware used to be hardware limited, and therefore efficient. Today Software relies on many more transistors per joule to compute a number of operations in high-level languages. I'd agree 22nm isn't leading edge, but foundries like Skywater could theoretically provide more options at 65nm and 90nm in coming years that are fully open source, except for the cost of the foundry technique perhaps: https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1130-19.07.18-Luke-Leighton-Software-Libre-Engineer-Advocate.pdf https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1130-19.07.18-L...
- ywvcbk 2y agoYes, I think we might be talking about slightly different things. I don’t really see OS model working for higher-end / leading-edge chips. In segments where chips are almost an interchangeable commodity and the R&D cost might be insignificant relative to manufacturing/foundry it would make a lot more sense.