mmeyerlein

and the next three months are over 😉
are there some exciting news again?
what about the fpga implementation ?
or some interesting benchmarks?
yes i know, corona, but with such a cool topic you can’t sit still, i bet your fingers are tingling a lot, right?

me again 🙂
i check in here every few months to see how the mill is developing. i find the ideas and approaches to challenge every aspect of cpu design long overdue, and have not felt present since transputer, itanium or transmeta. i think the world again needs this courage to not always follow the same or very similar path as seen in thousands of scientific papers on cpu design. that’s why i accompanied all talks with admiration, and i really enjoy being on the wiki because it’s always very inspiring 4 me.
however, in the last 2 1/2 years it has become very quiet and i could imagine that the fanbase starts to erode if i generalize my motivation.
ivan, i find it very informative when you answer triggered, which makes my flame of hope blaze 😉
we ourselves just went through a pandemic with a series b in a similar size, and know how hard it is to get vc money, but it was possible.
so i wanted to ask you if it wouldn’t be a good idea to make a virtual talk about the challenges and progress of the last 2 years. not so much a special technical talk, but more a general talk about the company itself?

hello again, somehow it has become quite calm in the last months around this very unusual project.
i am still very curious about the current status. can you give a big update again?
or how about another talk? they were always very insightful.

hello again – i’m starting to feel like howard carpendale 🙂

as i am still highly interested in how things are going with you, my quarterly reminder has directed my focus back to you.

due to the rather restrained communication, the feeling is slowly spreading that, according to experience, the probability of financing is strongly decreasing… which i would find extremely unfortunate…

is there a plan b?
something like an open source project?
or at least to make the patents freely available?
because selling them to be locked up, would be, as already said several times, an extreme pity.

can you feed your fans a little information, please?

winter is just around the corner.
and since I’m still very curious, I wanted to ask what the answers from the vc’s are 🙂

i can reassure you. we had the meetings and the signatures all done remotely, because it was in the height of the pandemic or at a time where no one knew exactly what was going on. in the meantime i’ve been vaccinated, but even now the board meetings are all remote. but that will certainly adjust a little again soon 🙂

as i said, i think the idea is really great, however i’m starting to get a little worried that the competition in the fast lane, with much worse implementations, will race past the mill and it will lose its usp. processors like the prodigy and the huge community of risc-v are making very big strides forward with their traditional implementations on both important kpi’s performance/transistor and performance/power, which will make funding more difficult.
i would find it extremely unfortunate if this really good new approach were to disappear into a drawer as a result….

so get to the computer and present the pitch deck at the vc’s! 😉

maybe i should visit here more often 😉
i work in berlin as an interim cto and i have accompanied companies in their series a or b in the last two years. i have dealt with vc’s of the size of lightspeed, and of course talked to them a lot about pandemic. all vc’s had a lot to do in the beginning of 2020 to quickly clean up their portfolio. from mid 2020 on, however, business continued as normal, and tech companies were never out of focus. at least that is what i had heard several times from the vc’s, and also experienced myself.
so i understand that the processes of one’s own company have to be adjusted first in the pandemic which didn’t simplify the cooperation, but a good team, good founders, a good idea and a good pitch deck provided you can find a vc. i’m not saying it’s easy to contact 100+ vc’s, but def. possible 🙂

I find the idea and almost all approaches terrific!
however, i would have rather chosen the risc-v approach and won a large community for this great idea and then monetized the implementation.
but i respect and admire your persistence!

from my personal experience i can say that the vc market has been back for a long time, since they took all the stressful companies out of their portfolios in the middle of last year. the really big vc’s are even more aggressive in the market than before.
therefore: go go go!

hi 😉

i will continue to visit here every few months in the hope that the mill has taken another big step forward.
i see the mill as a coherent overall concept that takes a big step forward instead of the “yet another risc” that the world is celebrating.

ok, i trust the whole mill team not to lose their enthusiasm and hope that such information, which is given again and again on request, will be established in a format of its own, something like a “message from the bridge” newsletter that comes every three months… 😉