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What projects does the opensource world lack (self.opensource)

submitted 3 days ago by 0101100101 to c/[email protected]

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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A high performance RISC-V CPU core.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Jim Keller is now working on one. I kind of doubt it will be FOSS, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah I have no hope for an American FOSS design.

Perhaps an EU-backed one might appear at some point.

Recently I stumbled upon a Chinese team working on a FOSS pair of cores, with source in GitHub. I think they were aiming at competing with A76 and N2. Supposedly they're well underway.

Found it

If these guys (or any others) tape out a competitive FOSE chip, it'll change the world. If it's a decent project, everyone and their mother will fork it. And we'll get chips that cost just a bit over the silicon and packaging cost.