Comment Re:Thanks Oprah. :) (Score 1) 111
So these people who want a 'fully open cpu' expect someone to put up large amounts of money to design, fabricate and mass-produce - enough production to drive down the per-unit costs to hobbyist-attainable levels - while exposing themselves to almost guaranteed direct competition against them using their own IP, all out of their own pocket so the hobbyist doesn't have to pay? How is that ever going to work? If you can't afford to fabricate a design *anyway* what point is there to having the design 'fully open' in the first place? I'd much prefer a refined, *well documented* core I can easily use wherever I want cheaply than having hdl to something I can never turn into tangible silicon. I'm not saying these recent ARM applications processors are well documented by the way. There's plenty of room for improvement there. Specially with the GPU interfaces. I just think people need to take a step back and realize 'fully open' isn't anywhere near as useful as 'well documented and production-grade'