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Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws
The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre.
Jacob Lifshay is leading the Libre-Chip project and he previously was the one working on Vulkan-CPU and Kazan as a CPU-based Vulkan implementation. Libre-Chip isn't to be confused with the separate Libre-SoC project that appears to be more or less dormant now without having delivered on its main objectives. To address this major category of flaws, the Libre-chip team is working towards building a high-performance computer processor (CPU) with speculative execution and working on a mathematical proof that it doesn't suffer from any speculative-execution data leaks, thereby demonstrating that this major category of flaws can be eliminated without crippling the computer's performance.
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