Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register

2020-07-04 Thread таракан
For Google, it's a good bargain... they collect new designs of processors for free and for them the fabrication cost (a few thousands $) is like a drop of water in the ocean. This said I doubt this will be a massive production. First there are selective criteria. They will not build anything. I

Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register

2020-07-04 Thread таракан
> Granted, I'm not sure I'd trust Google with something like this (I > actually disable Google Chrome on my Android phones and use Firefox > instead), I hope you're aware that basically android = google/alphabet... so disabling chrome on Android won't protect you much from 'evil' google...

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register

2020-07-04 Thread jim bell
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/ is it 10 square millimeters, or 10 millimeters squared?

Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register

2020-07-04 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 7/4/20 16:30, таракан wrote: > >> Granted, I'm not sure I'd trust Google with something like this (I >> actually disable Google Chrome on my Android phones and use Firefox >> instead), > > I hope you're aware that basically android = google/alphabet... so disabling > chrome on Android won't p

Re: If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free • The Register

2020-07-04 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 7/4/20 15:41, [Gong Show OOPS!] 2.0 wrote: > hilarious - the [people] from google are offering to 'fab' your [...] > chip for 'free'. It's touching to see how the google [people] stick > to their foundational principle : "everything we do is evil" It's amazing how nonsensical this sounds when