From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:25:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: gaddie pitch moving X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~1366 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b181e8fe576c4dc186b75e13c262a20b0b90e55a;p=libreriscv.git gaddie pitch moving --- diff --git a/3d_gpu.mdwn b/3d_gpu.mdwn index a31c8a1ed..ef465717b 100644 --- a/3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -1,71 +1,4 @@ -See architectural details [here](./architecture) - -# "Gaddie Pitch" (1) for LibreSOC - -| What we do | Benefits | Feelings | -| ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------------------- | -| design high-performance | No spying backdoors, | Much less frustrated | -| efficient and simpler | greatly reduced time | when developing products| -| processors with built-in | and cost to market | using e.g. China-based | -| 3D and Video capability | Simpler debugging | products. End-customer | -| in a fully-transparent | Full transparency | stops complaining, | -| fashion. | for their customers | Risk and worry gone. | - -## You know how... - -You know how for computers, you really have no idea how they work? And -how you keep having to replace them with upgrades? Turns out that -it's very difficult for medium-sized businesses to design lower-cost products -because the only cheap processors (almost always from China) do not respect -Copyright law, provide almost zero documentation, and even Intel processors -are known to have spying backdoor co-processors in them? - -## Well what we do is... - -Well, what we do is: design 3D-capable efficient processors based on -full transparency. All source code, right to the bedrock, hardware -and software. We don't tell customers "trust us", we say "go have a -specialist audit the full source, independently". If there's ever -some documentation missing, the customer can check for themselves when -designing *their* product around ours. - -## In fact... - -In fact, one customer that we're talking to is so fed up with a Chinese-based -$35 component that they are using in a $3000 product, where they are having -to spend considerable resources to *reverse-engineer* the China component, -they're willing to bet on our product even before we've -completed it, they believe in the approach and that our design can help -them out that much. - -# "Gaddie Pitch" (1.5) for LibreSOC + EOMA68 - -## What we do - -Design modular computing appliances based around "Computer Card" standards -where the "Computer Card" may be upgraded, swapped, shared, re-programmed, -re-purposed, and re-used. - -## Benefits - -Almost too numerous to describe. Not just the right to repair: the right -to redesign and many more. "Computer Card" has the data *and* the apps on -it, so goodbye file incompatibility: just move **the whole computer** from a -TV slot to a Laptop slot to a Tablet slot to a Desktop slot. Also the cost -savings and environmental savings are enormous. Keep the same $300 Laptop -"Housing" for 15 years, upgrade its parts over time, and not only buy a -new Computer Card for $30 every 2 years, keep the old one as a "spare", -give it to the kids, re-program it for watching Videos, the list is endless. - -## Feelings - -Every person we've spoken to, once they get around the confusion of the -idea of a "Computer" being inside a "Card" rather than "part of A Laptop", -has loved both the environmental as well as the cost savings. - -# "Gaddie Pitch" (2) for LibreSOC - -Cole TODO +See architectural details [here](./architecture) and [[gaddie]] pitch # Hybrid 3D GPU / CPU / VPU