Counting stars: open source hardware at chip companies

· Adafruit Industries Blog · Oct. 19, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
Summary
This blog post discusses a project by Zero ASIC that counts GitHub stars on public chip design repositories based on different companies. It highlights the noteworthy ranking of Zero ASIC being significantly ahead in terms of stars compared to other companies, including NVIDIA. The post includes data normalization by company headcount for better context.
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