# Questions
+<https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095>
-* __Introduce yourself and your company, and explain what makes you different.__
+## __Introduce yourself and your company.__
- Libre-SOC consisting of
- - Red Semiconductor
- - VectorCamp
- - VanTosh
+ I am Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, lead of the Libre-SOC project. For the NGI Search project
+we created a consortium of the following companies:
+ - Red Semiconductor, lead by David Calderwood
+ - VectorCamp, represented by Konstantinos Margaritis
+ - VanTosh, lead by Toshaan Bharvani
+## Why is SVP64 relevant to Next Generation Internet Search?
-* ~~What services or products do you offer?~~
+Everyone thinks the Internet is a Software-only environment.
+Reality is that Software can only run on hardware, and we are
+addressing the fundamental performance and power-efficiency of
+the Hardware, by verifying that low-level memory, string,
+regular-expression and
+Machine Learning algorithms run optimally on SVP64.
- __What are you building?__
+The biggest differentiator however is that unlike say Intel
+or ARM, if we find that SVP64 is sub-optimal we will take the
+opportunity provided us by NGI Search to investigate how to
+actually improve the Instruction Set Architecture.
-* ~~What milestones have you achieved so far since your project launch?~~
+The bottom line is that hardware-enhanced performance benefits
+*everyone's* algorithms, with performance improvements.
- __What milestones have you set and how are you going about achieving them__
+## Who are the individual consortium members, and what are their specialisations?
+ - Red Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company which will implement working Silicon deploying the SVP64 Enhancements to the Power ISA, making developer kits available to prospective IoT/EDGE customers, the FOSSHW and NGI hardware communities alike
+ - VectorCamp is a provider of SIMD Vectorization and Software optimization and Training Services.
+ - VanTosh is an ISV with expertise in porting to the POWER platform, and an MSP for running your private cloud based multi-architecture like POWER machines, we also are very active in open source communities for software and hardware.
-* ~~What have do you achieved with your idea thanks to the NGI Search project?~~
+## __Tell me about your project?__
- __What has NGI Search project empowered you to be able to aspire?__
+ With prior kind funding from NLnet and NGI POINTER we have established
+ and implemented the principles of the SVP64 Extension to the Power ISA.
+ This Extension is optimised to greatly simplify mathematical calculations,
+ providing benefits in the fields of Cryptography, Machine Learning,
+ Autonomous systems, Audio/Video, DSP and many other general-purpose areas.
+
+ The building-blocks of SVP64 are designed to provide by combination these
+ solutions and we are now working, with the support of NGI Search, to
+ establish new building-blocks to include Advanced Search capabilities,
+ which are also applicable to all of the above.
-* What are your goals for the middle/long-time future?
+## __What milestones have you set and how are you going about achieving them__
+The three key milestones are: analysis, review and enhancement,
+and we are already well into the analysis process. The review
+process will complete Stage 2, and implementation will be Stage 3.
-* Any piece of advice for those who are looking for public funding?
+Across the three participating organisations we have a multi-skilled
+team and there will be cross-organisational cooperation on all Milestones.
+For those interested, anyone will be able to follow our work in real-time
+at <https://libre-soc.org>
+## What are your goals for the middle/long-time future?
+
+The ultimate goal is to create a progressive family of micro-processors
+and this grant allows us to validate the critical elements of this
+project, ensuring that the processor family is efficient at string,
+data and machine learning.
+
+## Any piece of advice for those who are looking for public funding?
+
+read the "call", make sure your application addresses it directly,
+and have a coherent vision (a "why").
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