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Chip manufacturers are on speed dial for cloud giants like Google and Amazon when they need volume production of internally designed chips. The goal is to help do-it-yourselfers, universities and chip startups cut the designs and production cost of chips. In recent weeks the Google-led effort has gained more partners to boost the open source chip effort, including manufacturer https://gf.com/, and the US Department of Defense, which last week injected $15 million in funding to https://www.skywatertechnology.com/, which provides capacity in its factories to manufacture the open source chips.

Some notable fabless companies include Nvidia and Apple, which send their designs to chip manufacturers like https://www.tsmc.com/english The fabless model became popular with the consolidation of chip manufacturing facilities.

EFabless provides open source EDA tools for chip design and verification, and SkyWater provides a process-design kit to prepare the chip for manufacturing.