<story><title>Facebook to open-source AI hardware design</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to-open-source-ai-hardware-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveguy</author><text>Can we please not call open sourcing a build plan of off the shelf components, open-source &amp;quot;hardware design&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t fit when we have open source circuit board designs. How about open-source build specification instead?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>I think you are completely underestimating (or misunderstanding) what this is.&lt;p&gt;The Open Compute designs (which is where this will end up) aren&amp;#x27;t just a list of parts. They include things like blueprints for custom chassis, circuit boards for power supplies and even designs for solid state storage devices[1][2][3]. The also include the source code for custom management software[4].&lt;p&gt;While it is true that they don&amp;#x27;t generally design their own logic boards, it is quite a long way from a list of parts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d be wrong about that: &lt;i&gt;This new Storage Pod performs four times faster, is simpler to assemble, and delivers our lowest cost per gigabyte of data storage yet. And, once again, it’s open source.&lt;/i&gt;[5]&lt;p&gt;I think &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot; is completely appropriate here, and to be honest I don&amp;#x27;t quite understand your objection.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Server&amp;#x2F;SpecsAndDesigns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Server&amp;#x2F;SpecsAndDesigns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;chassis&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;chassis&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;power-supply&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;power-supply&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hardware-management&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.opencompute.org&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hardware-management&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.backblaze.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;backblaze-storage-pod-4&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.backblaze.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;backblaze-storage-pod-4&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook to open-source AI hardware design</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to-open-source-ai-hardware-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveguy</author><text>Can we please not call open sourcing a build plan of off the shelf components, open-source &amp;quot;hardware design&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t fit when we have open source circuit board designs. How about open-source build specification instead?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>I agree we should differentiate between the types of open-sourcing. Open-source hardware should either be the umbrella term or the specific one for open-source circuits. Open-source build is one phrase for this sort of thing. Maybe configuration would be another.&lt;p&gt;Seems tricky given we usually call a collection of components on PCB&amp;#x27;s and such a computer, hardware design, server, or so on. Putting open-source in front of them doesn&amp;#x27;t make it clear how much is open-source. That might be what we need to resolve. Anybody have ideas?</text></comment>