Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC

An anonymous reader writes "The 32-bit OpenRISC CPU has been available for many FPGAs and was turned into a commercial ASIC in 2003. Now, the OpenCores community is asking for donations to create a new ASIC with the OpenRISC CPU, ethernet, PCI, UART, USB and other peripherals. The goal is to be able to sell these ASICs at a low price to anyone who wants to build a cheap embedded system built completely on open source. The OpenRISC currently runs on Linux 2.6.37 and has ports of gcc 4.5.1 among other things."

Re:Isn't SPARC open source?

[Anonymous Coward]

I found a link to "Download the only free 64-bit micro processors". How do I install that in my MoBo? I'm running Vista.

Re:Isn't SPARC open source?

[TheRaven64]

There used to be a small company that produced the OpenSPARC chips. I can't remember what they were called - Star? Solar? Something like that. Anyway, they were bought by some database company a while ago, and they still make those chips.