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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ a stand-alone GPU product (contact us if this is a product that you want).
 Our primary goal is to design a **complete** all-in-one processor
 (System-on-a-Chip) that happens to include a libre-licensed VPU and GPU.
 
-We seek investors, sponsors, engineers and potential customers, who are
+We seek investors, sponsors (whose contributions thanks to NLNet may be tax-deductible), engineers and potential customers, who are
 interested, as a first product, in the creation and use of an entirely
 libre low-power mobile class system-on-a-chip.  Comparative benchmark
 performance, pincount and price is the Allwinner A64, except that the
@@ -29,11 +29,29 @@ is made available, immediately.
 
 Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, single core dual issue, around 300 to 350mhz.  This will provide the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially viable embedded product in its own right.
 
-See:
+# 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 commercial and mass-volume (100 million units
+  and above)
+* the project shall be entirely transparent so that end-users will be
+  able to trust it
+* the source code shall be available at all times for all components
+  for BUSINESS reasons, making development and use of SDKs dead simple
+  and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus
+  hugely saving them money.
+
+# Links:
 
 * [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]]
 * [[discussion]]
 * [[resources]]
+* [[overview]]
+* [[3d_gpu/funding]]
+* [[3d_gpu/architecture]]
 * Founding [[charter]]
 * Mailing list <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/>
 * Crowdsupply page <https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class>
@@ -45,9 +63,9 @@ See:
 * NLNet Project Page <https://nlnet.nl/project/Libre-RISCV/>
 * [[nlnet_proposals]]
 
-Progress:
+# Progress:
 
-* Dec 2019: Second round NLNet questions answered.
+* Dec 2019: Second round NLNet questions answered.  External Review completed.  6 NLNet proposals accepted (EUR 200,000+)
 * Nov 2019: Alternative FP library to Berkeley softfloat developed. NLNet first round questions answered.
 * Oct 2019: 3D Standards continued.  POWER ISA considered.  Open 3D Alliance begins.  NLNet funding applications submitted.
 * Sep 2019: 3D Standards continued.  Additional NLNet Funding proposals discussed.
@@ -93,6 +111,7 @@ Progress:
 * <https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/db04j3/libreriscv_3d_cpugpu_seeks_grants_for_ambitious/>
 * <https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/1845252/libre-risc-v-3d-cpugpu-seeks-grants-for-ambitious-expansion>
 * <https://forums.puri.sm/t/risc-v-m-class-effort-and-purism-donation/6528/15>
+* <https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/27527/comm/1/show-all-comments.html>
 
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