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Around 10-12 years ago someone with industry experience started a project to create a modern open source GPU from scratch. I believe he even had an sponsor for first round of ASIC production, but was targeting FPGA for the first demos.

What happened to that guy?

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Is https://hackaday.com/2013/10/11/an-open-source-gpu/ what you mean out of interest, there's a link to a kickstarter, which links to - https://github.com/asicguy/gplgpu

Yeah, probably the same guy.

Any idea how far he got with this?

The code base has 10 commits. Looks like whoever sponsored him got scammed.

Not the same guy, but if you're interested in the subject https://github.com/xenowing/xenowing is also worth a look.

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