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Introduction to the F-CPU Project
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The F-CPU Project was created with two ideas:
- That hardware and software are really two instances of the same concept:
an information processing mechanism.
- That intellectual freedom, as the underlying idea behind Free Software
and the GNU/GPL license, should be extended to encompass all the desktop.
From these two basic ideas followed the mission of the F-CPU Project: to
design an advanced, high-performance 64-bit architecture that will easily
take us well into the next century, and to work towards the first implementation
of this new architecture: the F1 processor, compatible with x86 commodity
hardware.
Not only will the architecture and its implementation be entirely placed
under the GNU/GPL (or a license very similar to it - due to legal issues it may not be applicable as is), but also
the development process itself is designed to follow the principle of freedom:
freedom to create, freedom to contribute, freedom to learn.
For more details on how this project came to be, read
The Freedom CPU Architecture: A GNU/GPL'ed
high-performance 64-bit microprocessor developed in an open, Web-wide
collaborative environment.