US Department of Defense funds Google and SkyWater to enable open source chips
Google has linked up with chip fabrication company, SkyWater Technology, on an open source chip technology program with funding from the US Department of Defense to build a reliable source of components for defense applications.announced it has received $15 million in funding from the DoD to develop open source design capabilities for its 90nm production process. To enable this, the company has turned to Google to provide the compute resources and other expertise to realize the project.
SkyWater said its new SKY90-FD open source offering is based on fully depleted silicon on insulator CMOS technology developed at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. It is intended to open up a pipeline for chip creation and give a boost to innovation, as well as providing a pathway to volume production for custom chip designs.
The DoD program manager for this project, Dr. Matthew Kay, said that developments such as this were important in ensuring a reliable source of US-made chips for defense applications.
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