Fantasy processors designed for use in avian automatons.

Came up with this idea for a processor while I was inspired by a friend's idea for a neural processor in their character. Design inspired by Ryzen processors. This was some good practice for some interesting techniques using procedural shader tricks in Blender.

AMP (Avian Machine Processors) is a government subsidized chip fab located on a moon orbiting a currently undetermined planet {this lore will be updated later probably}. They produce highly specialized chips for a variety of the royal avian guard's machine soldiers, including the Stormbird series seen here. These chips use a RISC architecture borrowed from Humanity's major chip manufacturers, although taken to the extreme by essentially gluing together as many separate CPU dies as possible into one chip. AMP have dubbed this "RISC-XL." This particular chip, the RXL3-9900SR, is specially designed for use in search and rescue automatons. It is a top-of-the-line processor from the third generation of RISC-XL, which provides more than enough horsepower that a complex misson like search and rescue would need. Facial recognition, visual input filtering, and rapid sensor data processing are this line's strongsuits, allowing for these machines to be top of class in their duty to find lost individuals or teams in need. The cost of this highly specialized processor is the robot's personality, or perhaps lack thereof. Unlike the civilian bots with general purpose non-RISC processors, the Stormbird line severely lacks the capability of conversing in any manner beyond stiff programmatic responses. Coupling this with their fast yet limited storage drives causes these robots to often be forgetful of their past missions. These cutbacks allow for the processor to consume miniscule amounts of energy compared to general purpose CPUs, which translates directly into increased up-time between charging or battery swaps.

Modelled and textured with Blender 4.3

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