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-# RISC-V 3D GPU / CPU / VPU
+# Hybrid 3D GPU / CPU / VPU
Creating a trustworthy processor for the world.
+Our [[3d_gpu/business_objectives]]
+
Note: this is a **hybrid** CPU, VPU and GPU. It is not, as many news articles
are implying, a "dedicated exclusive GPU". The option exists to *create*
a stand-alone GPU product (contact us if this is a product that you want).
@@ -36,62 +38,9 @@ Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm,
the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially
viable embedded product in its own right.
-# Business Objectives
-
-See [[3d_gpu/business_objectives]]
-
-* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU
-* the project shall be commercial and mass-volume (100 million units
- and above)
-* the project shall be entirely transparent so that end-users will be
- able to trust it
-* the source code shall be available at all times for all components
- for BUSINESS reasons, making development and use of SDKs dead simple
- and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus
- hugely saving them money.
-
-Reasoning:
-
-* If the processor is not a hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU, the
- complexity involved in developing a split shared-memory CPU-GPU both
- at a hardware and a software level will be so costly it will jeapordise
- the project.
-* The project is commercial and mass-volume because there are plenty
- of academic designs (none of them reaching production where people
- may benefit), and "Open" designs, created by the Open Hardware
- Community, sadly due to the high cost of producing ASICs, tend to be
- focussed on markets that would have been great about twenty to thirty
- years ago.
-* Transparency is a key business objective. It is a Unique Selling Point
- that the processor is developed in a fashion that, should it be
- independently audited, no opportunity for spying back-door co-processors
- will be found to have "made their way surreptitiously - or overtly -
- into the design". Yes, GCHQ: I know about the conversation you had
- with nCipher (and, to their everlasting credit, that they told you
- to take a hike)
-
-# Links:
-
-* [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]]
-* [[discussion]]
-* [[resources]]
-* [[overview]]
-* [[3d_gpu/funding]]
-* [[3d_gpu/architecture]]
-* Founding [[charter]]
-* Mailing list
-* Crowdsupply page
-* Wiki
-* Git repositories
-* Bugtracker
-* Kazan Vulkan Driver (including 3D engine)
-* [NLNet 2019 Milestones](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/buglist.cgi?columnlist=assigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Ccf_budget&f1=cf_nlnet_milestone&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=NLnet.2019.02)
-* NLNet Project Page
-* [[nlnet_proposals]]
-* [[llvm]]
-
# Progress:
+* Feb 2020: OpenPower Foundation EULA released. Coriolis2 Layout experimentation begun. Dynamic Partitioned SIMD ALU created.
* Jan 2020: New team members, Yehowshua and Michael. Last-minute attendance of FOSDEM2020
* Dec 2019: Second round NLNet questions answered. External Review completed. 6 NLNet proposals accepted (EUR 200,000+)
* Nov 2019: Alternative FP library to Berkeley softfloat developed. NLNet first round questions answered.
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*
*
-*
+* Dec 2019 ProLinux
+* Dec 2019 Phoronix
+* Feb 15 2020 Phoronix
+* Feb 15 2020 Slashdot OpenPOWER article
# Information Resources and Tutorials
+* Fundamentals to learn to get started [[3d_gpu/tutorial]]
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