finish 022 update

diff --git a/updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn b/updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn
index 7d100a22933c11f7baeead93e1364751f0752a5c..7aa72680f271c8c7250ed5a25681c0d472976b17 100644 (file)
--- a/updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn
+++ b/updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn
@@ -103,14 +103,15 @@ people we met, including one who can help us to develop a
 
 We have now four new people who are contributing: Cole, Veera, Yehowshua
 and Michael.  Veera is a sysadmin and I would be delighted to get some
-help managing the server.  In particular I want to install public-inbox
-but it requires exim4 and mailman to be converted to Maildir.
+help managing the server.  In particular I would like to install public-inbox
+but it requires exim4 and mailman to be converted to Maildir.  This is
+the kind of thing that would be great to hand over to another sysadmin.
 
 Cole just loves the idea of what we're doing and wants to learn, so what
 I've asked him to do is to simply follow instructions and tutorials, and
 give us feedback on whether they're clear.  If not, that's a problem that
-needs to be fixed, and his *lack* of experience is absolutely perfect for
-testing that.
+needs to be fixed, and, contrary to expectations, it's precisely his
+*lack* of experience is absolutely perfect for testing that.
 
 Yehowshua - a friend of Michael - got in touch around the time of the
 last update, and he's been helping find funding.  As he is at Georgia Tech,
@@ -124,7 +125,9 @@ Michael has just jumped straight in to the processor design.  Yehowshua
 tells me he first met Michael as he was sitting in a cafe with an FPGA
 board attached to his laptop.  He's another of these extremely rare
 self-motivated, self-taught, "auto-learner" types who are worth their
-weight in gold.
+weight in gold.  He's currently helping with the
+[Dynamic SIMD partitioner](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132)
+which we will need to do a special update about, at some point.
 
 One particularly fascinating common theme between all of us turns out
 to be music, maths, and high-coordination sports.  Yehowshua loves
@@ -145,10 +148,43 @@ the feedback we need to target the processor at an actual market.
 
 The extra NLNet budgets are helping, as is the continued sponsorship from
 Purism.  I am beginning to get slightly overloaded with the managerial and
-bureaucratic tasks, I still have to coordinate the NLNet tasks for each
-of the Memorandums of Understanding, at which point the tasks listed on
-them, people can then get paid for completing them.  I can't quite get
-over the fact that NLNet was happy to allocate such a huge amount of
-money to this project, it's amazing, humbling, and a huge responsibility.
+bureaucratic tasks, combined with the "Engineering" tasks that, as is always
+the case, require 100% sustained week-long focus.
+
+These two (three? four? five?) things are clearly incompatible.  whoops.
+
+I still have to coordinate the NLNet tasks for each of the Memorandums
+of Understanding, at which point the tasks listed on them, people can
+then get paid for completing them.  I can't quite get over the fact that
+NLNet was happy to allocate such a huge amount of money to this project,
+it's amazing, humbling, and a huge responsibility.
+
+Also, we got word that the 180nm tape-outs (one in March 2020, one in October
+2020) are actually subsidised.  In addition, we have *verbal* informal
+confirmation that some proprietary cell libraries are about to be
+announced as being libre-licensed.  This is particularly fascinating.
+
+Reading between the lines, we can surmise / hypothesise that various
+"noises" about how hardware is proprietary and how difficult it is to
+do Libre / Open ASICs (people basically give up and don't even bother
+because it's so ridiculously costly, no one individual Libre / Open
+ASIC developer could possibly imagine themselves contributing to,
+let alone raising the multi-million funds for, say, a
+4 GHz 10-stage 12-core SMP multi-issue processor, so they don't
+even bother to design or release anything that *could* be part of
+such a design), and consequently it looks like various large companies
+who shall remain nameless for now are quietly and subtly waving around
+very large amounts of cash in front of the noses of Foundries, tempting
+them to release things like Cell Libraries under Libre Licenses.
+
+Given that the U.S. Trade War has recently caused a whopping
+**twelve percent** drop in
+[ASIC sales](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/02/07/2157253/chip-industry-had-worst-sales-year-since-dot-com-bubble-burst),
+with USA ASIC sales dropping **twenty four percent**,
+they're probably "quite open" shall we say to large up-front cash deals.
+
+Anyway, as always, if you'd like to help out (and actually receive money
+for doing so), we have a nice shiny new section
+[on the website](https://libre-riscv.org/), "How can i help?" and there
+is a heck of a lot to do.  Feel free to get in touch, any time.
 
-Also, we got word that the