TapeFoundry
Roadmap
Five stages, one machine. Each stage opens on a condition, not a date.
The arc
| Stage | Subject | What it contributes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| S01 | Arithmetic | Adders, multipliers, dividers, comparators | Live — 11 drawings |
| S02 | Memory | Registers, counters, register files | Next |
| S03 | Control | Decoders, state machines, timing | Planned |
| S04 | I/O | Shifters, buffers, bus logic | Planned |
| S05 | The machine | Everything wired into one CPU | The goal |
The triggers
| Condition | Cards | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 30% of Series 01 | 1,035 | The Series 02 drawing list goes to a holder vote — one card, one vote. |
| 60% of Series 01 | 2,070 | Series 02 opens: memory circuits, same foundry, same rules. |
| Sold out | 3,450 | Series 01 closes for good. No further numbers. |
Why conditions
A date we miss is a broken promise. A condition is a fact anyone can check on chain. Publishing conditions ties the next stage to something observable: the number of cards that exist.
What a vote decides
At 30%, holders choose which memory circuits Series 02 will contain — the drawing list, not the mechanism. The price rule, the claim rule and the cap structure carry over unchanged. One card, one vote: holding two cards gives two votes.
What a card entitles its holder to at each stage — the vote, the early window, the full-set mark — is set out in Holding a card.
Capacity across stages
The foundry holds 12,000,000 gates. Series 01 uses 2,886,900 at cap, leaving about 9.1 million for later stages on this processor. A later series may open its own foundry instead; that choice does not affect cards already taped out here.