From 626735e529d258a218a576e9b052a1e79993f25a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 18:53:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- 3d_gpu.mdwn | 30 ------------------------------ 1 file changed, 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/3d_gpu.mdwn b/3d_gpu.mdwn index 7d4c9318e..15e4a32cb 100644 --- a/3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -40,36 +40,6 @@ viable embedded product in its own right. See [[3d_gpu/business_objectives]] -* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU -* 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. - -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]] -- 2.30.2