From: yimmanuel3@f4ac60d763911c3fa518755176e4b9ed455c75d8 <yimmanuel3@web>
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+## The Mission:
+
+ - give mass volume appliance manufacturers an alternative to expensive un-auditable chips.
+ - maximize the degree of trust a customer can place in their processor. 
+
+## The Means:
+
+provide the customer the **freedom to study, modify, and redistribute** the full SoC source from HDL and boot loader to down to the VLSI.
+
+## The Market:
+
+ - chromebooks
+ - smartphones
+ - tablets
+ - industrial boards
+ - single-board computers (like the Raspberry Pi)
+ - whatever you want
+
+## The Machine:
+
+a (quad core, 800mhz, dual issue, 4-wide FP32, CPU, GPU, VPU, [and later an ML inference core] ) SOC.