Re: Software Designed Silicon - build your own Lisp Processor

On Dec 7, 5:44 pm, Frank Goenninger DG1SBG
The concept seems promising. Now we'll see how soon a Big One will buy
these guys either in order to get this under their belly or to prevent
them from going to market ...


Looking at their notions of cost-per-part I imagine they're aiming at
the embedded market, not general purpose. Such hardware might be very
interesting there.
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