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 # Business Objectives
 
 
 # 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
 * 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


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   and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus
   hugely saving them money.
 
   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]]
 # Links:
 
 * [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]]