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   1 Libre-SOC is to be an augmented POWER ISA compliant chip that is
   2 libre-licensed to the
   3 bedrock. It is a low-power, mobile-class, 64-bit Quad-Core SoC at a
   4 minimum 800mhz clock rate, suitable for tablet, netbook, and industrial
   5 embedded systems. Full source code and files are available not only
   6 for the operating system and bootloader, but also for the processor,
   7 its peripherals and its 3D GPU and VPU.
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  10
  11 Onboard Libre-SOC is the
  12 [Kazan](https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/kazan) GPU, a
  13 libre-licensed, software-rendered
  14 [Vulkan](https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/) Driver written in
  15 Rust that uses LLVM for code generation.  Kazan will use optimised 3D
  16 instructions specifically designed for and added to Libre-SOC, yet
  17 Kazan itself may still be used (unoptimised) on other hardware.
  18
  19 The performance target for Kazan on Libre-SOC is a very
  20 modest mobile-class level (1280 x 720 25 fps, 100 Mpixels/sec, 30
  21 Mtriangles/sec, 5-6 GFLOPs), whilst the power budget is very tight
  22 (under 2.5 watts in a 28 nm process).