Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience.
Hard at work… and growing
A lot has happened at Oxide since we first de-cloaked in December and I apologize for the lack of an official update on our end, other than our Twitter feeds. We’ve been hard at work building a product!
We are now a team of 15 people! Everyone was in Emeryville for the Open Compute Summit, which was cancelled, but we still made the best of it by having company-wide face-to-face architecture discussions. We even snapped a photo with the whole team. As Bryan said: we cannot wait for this image to be burned into a ROM.
Computer History Museum
We also made sure to visit the Computer History Museum while everyone was in town. It was fun to have some folks from the open firmware community join us as well! Since it was not busy we got to spend an unusually long amount of time with the docent at the IBM 1401 demo which was fascinating.
On the Metal
Last month, we wrapped up the first season of our podcast, On the Metal. These were super fun to record and I know we are looking forward to Season 2 just as much as you are!
PCI
On February 18th, we received the most perfect PCI vendor ID: 01DE. Huge thanks to Robert Mustacchi for getting that!
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_OXIDE 0x1DE
— Joshua M. Clulow (@jmclulow) February 19, 2020
The Soul of a New Machine at Stanford
Bryan gave a talk at Stanford on The Soul of a New Machine.
Research and writing
I have written some articles on my blog and for ACM Queue that you might enjoy reading:
In the media
Tom Krazit at Protocol published a feature on what we are working on: This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants.
Moving in
Cliff L. Biffle made us new signs for our conference rooms!
We have gotten some amazing mugs from folks for our collection, thank you all so much!
Thanks to @davidmedberry for the Cray mug and book! We will put it to good use @oxidecomputer! pic.twitter.com/QNPrIGEzbB
— Jessie Frazelle (@jessfraz) March 10, 2020
THANK YOU @abenik for the Orion mug! Our collection is so truly unique now :) 😍🤓 pic.twitter.com/aIXxfQhg4e
— Jessie Frazelle (@jessfraz) February 13, 2020
The phone lines are now open!
Last Monday, I opened our phone line to anyone who wanted to share stories about their hardware pain. Thank you to everyone for the wonderful conversations!
oxide.computer v2
On Wednesday, Jared Volpe shipped the redesign of this website! Pro tip: check out the 404 page ;)
Bryan at Oxidize 1K
On Friday, Bryan gave a talk on at Oxidize 1K on "Tockilator: Deducing Tock execution flow from Ibex Verilator traces".
We will update this post once the video becomes available! For a good synopsis of the conference check out this post.
Stay tuned!
That’s all for now. We will continue to update you with news as we go about building.