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In the wild era of AI, ML, LLM, GPT #democratization, individuals and businesses of all sizes deserve the following #rights:
1. The right of #fabrication (#tapeout) of their own custom supercomputer chip.
2. The right to build their own secure, trusted, #open, tinkerer-friendly, #diy #hardware.
3. The right to run an ML model at a fraction of a cost at their #makerspace, home, or on premises on that custom hardware they built (comparing to what they can afford on an NVIDIA GPU cluster).
For 2.5 years I've being reinventing the wheel, a special new #fpga fabric #asic IP (intellectual property) optimized to be configured from a Soft IP bitstream.
Hard IP (especially SERDES) is the nastiest obstacle for #opensource #hardware in my 4-years YosysHQ ride on the surf of the #fpgas made by Xilinx, Lattice Semiconductor, Efinix, Inc., QuickLogic Corporation...
Actually....
A single-crystal pure silicon wafer is so slow to grow. The "Fairchild path" stops now. We went way too far. #chipshortage shows how ridiculous the problem is...
While closed-source "silicon mafia" is around, the #claytronics dream of seth goldstein, the Terminator 2 liquid metal swarm robotics won't be economically feasible.
The whole year of 2022 I've being researching the 200 years of the switching circuits history, from Michael Faraday's coil to these days of Geoffrey Hinton's backprop, and Ilya Sutskever's DL and GPT.
I dove into the practical aspects of magnetic amplifiers and built some fascinating prototypes; I found you don't even need diodes, nor any silicon whatsoever.
I learned more and found that I don't need cobalt, molybdenum, not even iron.
Iterating on top of some ancient RF ideas, I FOUND A WAY TO ENABLE NONLINEARITY IN A 2-MATERIAL SYSTEM OF COPPER AND GLASS.
The problem? Nobody believes me 😂 and nobody knows what I was actually working on for the last 20 years. I always had too big of an ego. I was too much "all over the place." I always had too weak communication skills. And in America, too many cultural clashes, and my pathological inability to listen without interrupting.
But!
I'm a good inventor. And I'm trying to improve my personality and Western social skills 🧘♂️. And I'm looking for an 😇 #angelinvestor who can believe. And for a marketer. And for a CEO. And a whole team ❤️ of awesome engineers and scientists!
Please, save me 🙏 Someone?..
#intellectualproperty #fundraising #venturecapital #chips #circuitdesign #asic #semiconductormanufacturing
The situation with Hard IP blocks vs. Soft IP:
https://lnkd.in/g49pk3WG