From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:23:43 +0000 (+0000)
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@@ -31,10 +31,7 @@ Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, si
 
 # Business Objectives
 
-* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU because if it is not, 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 shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU
 * 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
@@ -44,6 +41,26 @@ Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, si
   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]]