Google's open-source silicon project takes a big step forward with Global Foundries

Good news! Google and semiconductors! What an affair! 😄 Developing the TPU was not enough for Google!

"US-headquartered GlobalFoundries (GF), the world's fourth-largest contract semiconductor manufacturer, has joined Google's two-year-old mission to prove open-source silicon is viable for foundries. 

Google's idea is to offer open-source projects by startups, academics and lower-cost options for manufacturing custom silicon with semiconductor foundries, with the aim of building a thriving ecosystem around open-source hardware. ...
Google and GF have released Process Design Kit for the GF 180nm process MCU platform "GF180MCU" under the Apache 2.0 license. The GF180MCU open source PDK is available on GitHub as an alpha release or "experimental" preview. The GF 180nm technology platform offers open-source silicon designers new capabilities for high-volume production, affordability, and more voltage options, Google said."

Google's open-source silicon project takes a big step forward | ZDNet Project allows developers to submit open-source integrated circuit designs and get them manufactured.