Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by armitron on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:59AM
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Note that there have been IP theft and other shadiness allegations from ex-members of the Apollo team.
If you do a little research you'll find out that there's plenty of "stay away" and "can't believe they haven't been sued into oblivion yet" indicators and all sorts of misleading claims and marketing.
My summary would be that it's a tightly-controlled, closed project lead by questionable people with well-documented histories of questionable practices including ignoring copyrights, distributing infringing software, deleting critical posts from their forums and putting out misleading information.
Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by DCKing on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:13AM
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It seems I have a little bit more to learn on this project. Are there any sources I could read?
Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by DCKing on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:00AM
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Ah that's a shame. I suppose this could be used to perform a revival of 68k without the Apollo core, but it's a shame that the engineering effort already there would not be available. Maybe this would be an incentive for them to open source it, but yeah.
Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by phonon on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:04AM
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They have a slack channel... :-)
https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/about_us:links
There are some other pretty nice and featured 68k cores that are open source (TG68, WF68K30L etc.) but none that is really close to the features and performance of the Apollo 68080.