The world's first open source GPU was born! to thank AMD

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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The world's first open source GPU was born! Thanks to AMD