I'll be presenting some of my latest work on Xous & Baochip with @Xobs at #39C3 on Day two, 11PM room One:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system

Hope to see you there!

For more on Baochip, checkout bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/baochip.com or read the source at github: https://github.com/baochip/baochip-1x

The TL;DR is that Baochip is a "mostly-open" RTL SoC in 22nm TSMC, purpose-built for Xous and expressly packaged for IRIS inspection. It packs in five RISC-V CPU cores (one Vexriscv CPU at 350MHz, and four PicoRV's at 700MHz), 2MiB on-chip SRAM and 4MiB on-chip RRAM (basically FLASH).

I'm aiming to have the chip broadly available by early 2026. Right now I have first silicon. You can follow development & ask questions on the Baochip discord at https://discord.gg/yesbcPF9Xy

Sorry, no website yet - I suck at marketing - but hey, at least the source code is up!

We (SCI Semiconductor) are about to hire some folks in the next couple of months (probably starting in January, since we're about to hit Christmas):

We're aiming to hire 1-3 FAEs, who can build out the open-source bits of the #CHERIoT software stack (including drivers / various communication stacks), build demos, and work with customers on use-case bringup.

We also want to hire someone else on the toolchain side. Primarily #LLDB + #OpenOCD, but also working with our #LLVM (and #RustC) folks.

Let me know if you're interested!

EDIT: We are a full-remote company. It's easiest for us to hire people in the UK (and one of our investors would really like us to hire more people in Sheffield), but elsewhere is possible (though might, for tax purposes, require you to be officially a contractor for a while).

We're also going to be hiring people for our hardware verification and RTL teams soon (more on the verification side than design at the moment, I think). I'm not responsible for them, but I can find out more details if anyone is interested. Our first CHERIoT chip is nearly finished, we're starting to work on the second.

EDIT 2: Thanks to all of the people who have expressed interest (in public and private posts). I'll try to get back to you all next week!

EDIT 3: I hope I've replied to everyone now! If I missed you (there were more replies than I expected!) please let me know. I think we'll aim to do another hiring round over the summer next year, so if the current timeline doesn't work out for you, please still let me know and I'll keep you in mind next time!

#GetFediHired