Honest question; Is there a reason the "black blob" chip epoxy is black? I presume to prevent light exposure damage? But if the housing is light-proof, clear resin could be used and so allow visual inspection of the installed ICs on demand?
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photoelectric interaction is a motivation for the black blob. the epoxy used often contains glass beads to make it tougher. however, if inspection is desired, in many cases a clear epoxy could be used.
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> As we vetted each part for openness and documentation, it became clear that you can’t boot any modern computer without several closed-source firmware blobs running between power-on and the first instruction of your code. This excludes
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That quote references the Project Novena laptop from 2014, a few years before the launch of Raptor Talos II. Even with newer, more open, solutions like POWER9, you're still trusting multiple third parties that the CPU delivered to you matches what you intended to purchase.
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1) Manage persistence 2) Manage persistence 3) Manage persistence
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can you elaborate? "persistence" means too many things to me, and i'm not sure if you mean that that's a restatement of 1 & 2 (i only clearly/unambiguously see how it relates to 3)
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Let's join forces :-) http://www.tpm.dev

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"Can we build trustable hardware?" As long as you fully control the entire process: Yes!pic.twitter.com/PImvSnLIsl
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I'm not too enthused about building my own fabhouse. I'll pass.
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