The_Mandate.mdwn

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