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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/LegendaryMauricius on 2025-09-10 18:19:02+00:00.
I was thinking of trying to make an open source hardware design as hobby for a GPU… in a few years. Now since open source software can be even more advanced or performant than proprietary ones, how viable would be for the community to build and iterate on real hardware design? Afaik FPGAs can be used to quickly and affordably test the chip routing, so it’s not that unimaginable for an open source programmer to contribute in their free time.
When it comes to AI there were several serious breakthroughs made in open source models. Now that the whole industry depends on many powerful open-source technologies, and that there are some open-source GPU projects, would it be possible for the community to come close to the big players in the field?