Cartilage, Transputers, and CellMatrix
May 5, 2022
Cartilage carries the strongest ideas of Transputers and CellMatrix into a new post-processor fabric. Micro-FPGAs, local communication, analog one-wire SerDes links, and physical packaging let computation grow by adding more connected material.
The architecture joins power distribution, signaling, configuration, and program structure so scale becomes a property of the fabric instead of a custom cluster project.
Build on the Right Lineage
Inmos Transputers made communication part of the processor model. Nicholas Macias’s CellMatrix explored locally connected reconfigurable cells. Ross Freeman’s FPGA made programmable hardware commercially real.
Cartilage combines those lineages with small reconfigurable nodes and a runtime that manages regions, routes, objects, and ports across a physically expandable array.
Create the Platform After Processors
The opportunity reaches from data-center compute to programmable matter and locally organized machines. The fabric can accept new nodes without redesigning a fixed-size server around every expansion.
Early cofounders, investors, FPGA engineers, and distributed-systems builders can shape this platform now. Help turn the architecture, runtime, and packaging into the next computing industry.
Execute Cartilage, Transputers, and CellMatrix Through Cartilage Runtime Instantiation
Cartilage Runtime-Instantiation Architecture carries this system into nested modules that enter and connect inside a live spatial machine.
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Our #Cartilage project resembles Inmos #Transputer, Nicholas Macias' #CellMatrix, and uses micro-FPGAs with analog 1-wire SerDeses for power distribution and signaling, while maintaining truly infinite #scalability by clever fabric design and physical packaging.
We did not raise any funding yet, and #now is the best time to jump on the project as a #cofounder or even early stage #angelinvestor because we do not even started to raise money yet, but already proved the model's feasibility. It definitely will impact many things in many areas of our ordinary lives. And, as you know, how much chips impact our lives already... These things are "post-chips", something that comes after chips. After processors. Something truly "next".
We have built our ideas on the shoulders of giants, and without Ross Freeman this all probably wouldn't be possible to intuit. But there's the Internet with its immense complexity and ingenuity, so we are grateful to that as well.
If you love to waste your life working for free with guaranteed 100% risk and 0% reward short-term and your name in history books long-term, come join me now. Otherwise, you'll get a salary, and would love to work with us anyway.
And... "I told you" ;-)
