Sandia SA3000
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Sandia's radiation-hardened CMOS reimplementation of the Intel 8085.
Why it's here
Placed in Hold: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 44%.
Evidence (2)
- 4Hacker News·6/29/2026researchSandia's Rad-Hard SA3000 8085 CPU
The article describes Sandia National Laboratories' effort to recreate the Intel 8085 as a radiation-hardened CMOS chip, resulting in the SA3000. It explains the engineering challenges of converting an HMOS design to CMOS, the higher transistor count, and the support chips Sandia produced for use in harsh environments such as space and defense systems.
- 7Hugging Face Blog·4/1/2026researchFalcon Perception: Early-Fusion Transformer for Grounding and Segmentation
Falcon Perception is a 0.6B-parameter early-fusion Transformer for open-vocabulary grounding and segmentation from natural language prompts. Hugging Face reports 68.0 Macro-F1 on SA-Co, along with a new diagnostic benchmark called PBench, and also introduces Falcon OCR, a 0.3B-parameter OCR model with strong benchmark results and high throughput.