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Comment by jauntywundrkind

12 hours ago

Almost. SoC is a 1+4 design, with a vexriscv main core (350MHz), and 4 tiny "Baochip IO" PicoRV cores (700MHz) (somewhat akin to the ultra-puny Programmable IO/PIO cores on rp2350). The crowdsupply for this board just opened. For on vexriscv, which has been around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619059 (183 points, 69 comments, nice)

I want Oxide to start an RFD for evaluate changing their base processor to this ("Gimlet"). Much higher security than anything else available. Switching off Hubris is probably a non-starter, it probably lacks some nice/necessary peripherals, and major supply chain risk, but also, an incredible open source chip you could go deeper on.