The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre. Libre-Chip is an effort to develop free/libre CPU/GPU designs and supporting software. Jacob Lifshay is leading the Libre-Chip project and he previously was the one working on Vulkan-CPU and Kazan as a CPU-based Vulkan implementation. Joining Libre-Chip as co-foun...