Over the past two years Google has been spearheading an effort to make silicon design more open-source and allowing more projects to get started in chip fabrication. That got started with a partnership with SkyWater Technology and Google covering the costs for open-source projects to see their initial chips fabricated on a 130nm process. Google's Open-Source Silicon Design Initiative recently announced SkyWater 90nm manufacturing will get underway for future manufacturing runs. Today the news out of Google's open-source group is that GlobalFoundries has joined this initiative and is providing 180nm manufacturing access.
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Google has promoted Chrome 104 to stable today as their newest feature update to this leading, cross-platform web browser.
Google and SkyWater have teamed up the past few years with an open-source design kit for allowing projects to see their open-source silicon designs manufactured. This effort started off on a 130nm process node but announced today is the rolling out of 90nm manufacturing.
Ben Widawsky who had been at Intel for the past seventeen years, most of which were spent improving their open-source Linux graphics driver as well as other Linux kernel contributions, has joined Google.
Following this week's Chrome 103 release, Google has now promoted Chrome 104 to beta.
Google today released Chrome 103 as the newest monthly feature update to its cross-platform web browser.
Google has been helping small open-source projects get started in chip fabrication with Google covering the costs and partnering with SkyWater Technology using their open-source process design kit (PDK). While the chip manufacturing is done on a 130nm process (SKY130), this effort has proven to be a big success for open-source hardware projects with limited funding and Google today announced a new silicon design portal.
Following this week's release of Chrome 102, Google has promoted Chrome 103 to beta for their cross-platform web browser.
Google just promoted Chrome 102 to stable as the latest feature update to their cross-platform web browser.
Hearing "open-source", "PSP", and "security" all together got me excited with my initial reaction thinking it was about AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP) albeit that's not the case here. Google's PSP announced today is the "PSP Security Protocol" and is designed for dealing with cryptographic hardware offloading at data center scale and used by Google already in production.
Google engineers are working on encrypted hibernation support for the Linux kernel as part of offering strong hibernation support for Google Chromebook usage.
The Google Hangouts Meet Speakermic is a device manufactured by ASUS that allows for 360 degree sound input/output designed for Google Hangout usage and allows daisy-chaining up to five of these speakermics together for use in large conference rooms. A Linux driver is on the way for the device just to address a mute button issue.
Chrome 101 is out today as stable for the newest feature update to Google's cross-platform web browser.
Google today announced the first public beta of Android 13.
Public code reviews started this week on Qt platform support for Google's Chromium open-source browser code.
Following this week's release of Chrome 100, Google has now published the Chrome 101 web browser beta.
Chrome 100 is out today with Google's multi-platform web browser now up to a three digit version.
It's been expected for many months now, but Google today at their Game Developer Summit keynote formally announced that Valve's Steam gaming client is coming to Chrome OS.
Following this week's release of Chrome 99, Google has now promoted Chrome 100 to beta.
We are now one release away from Chrome 100 but prior to that now available is Chrome 99 that brings a number of prominent developer additions.
Google today announced Network-Opt as a new open-source library focused on optimizing network topology handling.
Following this week's release of Chrome 98 stable, Google has now promoted Chrome 99 to beta status.
Chrome 98 is available today as Google's second web browser update of the new year. The Chrome 98 changes are mostly on the developer-side but with some user-impacting differences.
Following last week's release of Chrome 97, Google has promoted Chrome 98 to beta form.
Google this afternoon promoted the Chrome 97 web browser to its stable series.
Google is looking to upstream their Linux kernel driver for Open Profile for DICE, a secret derivation protocol used currently by some Android devices.
With Chrome 96 released, Google has now promoted Chrome 97 to beta as the next iteration of their web browser.
Google has released Chrome 96 a day early as the latest routine update to their cross-platform web browser.
As part of Google's effort around fuzzing for improving open-source security, the company today announced ClusterFuzzLite as their new, easy-to-use solution for fuzzing open and closed-source projects with ease as part of the CI/CD process.
Over the past nearly two decades Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has been known as an initiative for getting students involved with open-source software development over the course of a summer while receiving a stipend/grant from Google. Beginning next year, GSoC will no longer be limited to students but open to all adults. Additionally, other changes are also coming.
Google announced today that now through at least the end of January they will be providing higher payment amounts for security researchers disclosing new vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel.
Earlier this year was news that Google is finally working to open-source their Fibers user-space scheduling framework. For the better part of the past decade they have been developing this user-space scheduling framework and finally now are working on offering public, open-source code intended for upstream around their work.
Following this week's release of Chrome 95, Google has now promoted Chrome 96 to beta status.
Chrome 95 has rolled out as stable today as the latest version of Google's web browser.
With OSS-Fuzz for continuous fuzzing of open-source projects and along with working on the various sanitizers for compilers, Google has been doing a lot for proactively uncovering software defects in key open-source projects. Now though a group of their engineers have been working on SiliFuzz for software aiming to discover new CPU defects.
For the better part of the past decade Google has been pursuing performance improvements to their Chrome/Chromium web browser as the "RenderingNG" initiative to provide faster web page performance, lower memory consumption, and better battery life. This current work is finally wrapping up in 2021 to great success.
Next month's release of Chrome 96 is a bit more exciting now thanks to the work of Jan Grulich at Red Hat.
Google announced today that Android 12 is now officially available from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
With Chrome 94 having shipped this week, Google has now promoted Chrome 95 to beta.
Google's Android had been notorious for all of its downstream patches carried by the mobile operating system as well as various vendor/device kernel trees while in recent years more of that code has been upstreamed. Google has also been shifting to the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI) as the basis for all their product kernels to further reduce the fragmentation. Looking ahead, Google is now talking of an "upstream first" approach for pushing new kernel features.
Chrome 94 is available today as another exciting update for Google's web browser.
Google is shipping Chrome 93 today as the latest stable version of their web browser.
The Chrome/Chromium web browser now has fully-enabled the Ozone/X11 platform support across both beta and stable channels.
Google promoted Chrome 94 to beta status today with some exciting changes.
Longtime kernel developer Kees Cook of the Google Security Team published a post on Google's Security Blog today effectively calling for more organizations to devote a greater number of engineers to the upstream Linux kernel in order to improve open-source security.
Following last week's release of Chrome 92, Google has now made available the Chrome 93 beta as the next iteration of their cross-platform web browser.
Google today released Chrome 92 as their newest release on the browser's four-week release regiment.
Since 2013 Google has been working on Fibers as a promising user-space scheduling framework. Fibers has been in use at Google and delivering great results while recently they began work on open-sourcing this framework for Linux and as part of that working on the new "UMCG" code.
Earlier this year Google announced the Lyra voice codec that could work with AV1 video for video chats over 56kbps modems. Google is today shipping its newest Lyra version.
Google wants to see Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel so much so that they have contracted the lead developer working on "Rust for Linux" as the work aims to get mainlined.
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