# Questions
-* __Introduce yourself and your company.__
+## __Introduce yourself and your company.__
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:
- VectorCamp, represented by Konstantinos Margaritis
- VanTosh, lead by Toshaan Bharvani
-* Why is SVP64 relevant to Next Generation Internet Search?
+## Why is SVP64 relevant to Next Generation Internet Search?
Everyone thinks the Internet is a Software-only environment.
Reality is that Software can only run on hardware, and we are
The bottom line is that hardware-enhanced performance benefits
*everyone's* algorithms, with performance improvements.
-* Who are the individual consortium members, and what are their specialisations?
+## 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 ...
-* __Tell me about your project?__
+## __Tell me about your project?__
With prior kind funding from NLnet and NGI POINTER we have established
and implemented the principles of the SVP64 Extension to the Power ISA.
establish new building-blocks to include Advanced Search capabilities,
which are also applicable to all of the above.
-* __What milestones have you set and how are you going about achieving them__
+## __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
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?
+## 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