The open source hardware has been well implemented on the CPU, and now the vertical research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the world's first open source gpgpu--"Miaow".
This name stands for" Many-core Integrated Accelerator of the Waterdeep ", is based on AMD Southern Islands Radeon HD 6000 series Graphics The resistor-transistor logic implementation of the open-source instruction set architecture.
Karu Sankaralingham, a computer researcher who leads the study, points out that Miaow's mission is to continue Moore's law, while open source hardware represents a new future. He believes that in another 5-10 years, people will be very dependent on open source hardware, as is now the case with open source software.
now, however, Miaow is still a purely academic research project , and whether or when commercialization is not a current concern.
Nonetheless, Karu Sankaralingham that the biggest implication of the project is that he proves that an intelligent team can create hardware that competes with high-end commercial products, laying the groundwork for a completely new design that does not depend on existing commercial products.
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