(C) Yann Guidon 2001 (whygee@f-cpu.org) | slide 2 / 18
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Short introduction to the F-CPU

F-CPU Project goals (voted 1999) :

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         To develop and make freely available an architecture, and all other intellectual
    property necessary to fabricate one or more implementations of that architecture,
    with the following priorities, in decreasing order of importance :
       1)  Versatility and usefulness in as wide a range of applications as possible
       2)  Performance, emphasizing user-level parallelism and derived
           through intelligent architecture rather than advanced silicon process
       3)  Architecture lifespan and forward compatibility
       4)  Cost, including monetary and thermal considerations

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In the end, the goal is not to make the fastest ever CPU, because it's an endless race. The purpose of this project is more to design the "coolest/sexiest" CPU possible.

Note the difference between "design/develop" and "build/market/sell/distribute..."