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Counting Stars: Open Source Hardware at Chip Companies

Zero ASIC founder Andreas Olofsson tallies GitHub stars on public chip design repositories by company to argue that the semiconductor industry contributes almost nothing to open source hardware. Ten-person Zero ASIC ranks first with about 3,900 stars, ahead of SiFive, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, and the post explains the counting method and notes the work of startups and projects like OpenROAD.

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