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SG's avatar

"impetuous" ... impetus !

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Christopher Allen's avatar

We are hosting our 3rd virtual Silicon Salon https://www.SiliconSalon.info on January 18th on the topic of open-source semiconductors and cryptographic security & acceleration needs for the community. Two of our speakers specifically will be talking about open-source approaches for hardware. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/492802494527 — Dylan, there still is some room, do you know someone that might want to present about this?

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Dylan Patel's avatar

Paid presumably?

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Christopher Allen's avatar

If you are not interested in on this topic area, I'd be glad to send you a discount code to attend the event (it is only $25). To get an ideas of what we are doing, you can see the presentations, slides, and transcripts from the last event at https://www.siliconsalon.info/salon2/

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Dylan Patel's avatar

I'm very interested in the topic, Open Source HW is a space I track closely, but noone speaks for free

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Mark Hahn's avatar

Owners controlling what runs on the hardware they buy - radical!

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YH's avatar

What’s intel take on this ?

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Dylan Patel's avatar

No official comment. Ask them yourself and if they get enough responses, they will have to mention something publically.

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YH's avatar

Might be more effectively for some analyst to ask during the earnings call 😊

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Dylan Patel's avatar

They never will

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YH's avatar

Do you think then eventually intel , Qualcomm, ampere etc will join in ?

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Dylan Patel's avatar

They will have to if they want to sell into Microsoft and Google eventually.

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osmarks's avatar

This seems very anti-open-source if it's meant to stop the owners of hardware from running their own code on it, which appears to be the case. Earlier versions of that are why the GPLv3 was written.

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