The price will probably depend a lot on the fab method, but the goal is to make it cheap and available. The main difference between this and beagleboard/arduino/freerunner is that they are all closed source ASICs. This is both a philosophical difference (Yeah! It's open source) and a practical (I wonder why the CPU is acting strangely, Oh well, I just have to look at the source code)

The OpenRISC spec supports 64-bit, but the current implementation is 32 bit. I agree with the GPU part. There is a cool project that has built a FPGA-based graphics card http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ . One problem with the open source hardware community is that it is a bit fragmented. Would be awesome to combine a lot of the efforts.

There are a number of open source CPU cores, most notably are probably Leon and opensparc. I'm not sure, however if the OpenSPARC has been turned into an ASIC.

This is a milestone in open source history. No more complaining about undocumented behaviour that causes drivers to crash. It's just to download the RTL code and see for yourself what is going on. If this catches on, the chances of building truly open systems greatly improves. Go OpenCores!

This is a milestone in open source history. No more complaining about undocumented behaviour that causes drivers to crash. It's just to download the RTL code and see for yourself what is going on. If this catches on, the chances of building truly open systems greatly improves. Go OpenCores!