NeumannGod's comments

On: Potential Organized Fraud in Tier-1 Systems Conferences

[NeumannGod]

This was about a previous conference. The current article seems to be new information and it's rather unsettling, if true

On: AJIT, a ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor

[NeumannGod]

Hi rwmj,

I think there's been some blur in the goal here. SHAKTI's aim is not to just build a Indian-based server chip manufactured abroad. For instance, if you see their tapeouts page (http://shakti.org.in/tapeouts.html), you can see that they have taped out a chip in India as well with 180nm..

Also, Compressed instruction support has been supported on SHAKTI since and a beta version is now available publicly. The reason for that contact was to try to port Fedora on the already taped out chip which does not support compressed instructions.

[CalChris → NeumannGod]

I didn't know that Intel made their fab lines available but apparently they do.

[VoxPelli → NeumannGod]

More on the India built version of SHAKTI: https://link.medium.com/L25lUFUo6V

Runs at 70 MHz

On: First silicon success on first tapeout!! Linux boots on India's Shakti processor

[NeumannGod]

SHAKTI processors based on RISC-V ISA (popular in news, a few months ago for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15684225) has successfully taped out and booted Linux in their first test chip silicon in 22nm Technology node. In Reddit - goo.gl/Z1yZU8