As others have previously, it is now time for a completely open processor. I like the work of openrisc and risc v projects. In my opinion, Intel is standing at the precipice of its own undoing. Intel's steadfast refusal to issue a recall is just hubris and might be a call to arms for competition to knock it down. This year might very well be the year that a few kickstarter projects get launched and that we have the beginnings of an exciting new trend in computing.
Open hardware would not have solved this, and lets say there was an open processor how likely it is to have suffered from the same thing since it impacts processors from multiple manufacturers and architectures? Is the open hardware community going to have the resources to fix this in any other way than how it is currently being handled? Fabs to create this kind of hardware cost billions of dollars. There is no way this is happening. Maybe the open hardware community can do something in FPGAs, but good luck
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Open hardware would not have solved this, and lets say there was an open processor how likely it is to have suffered from the same thing since it impacts processors from multiple manufacturers and architectures? Is the open hardware community going to have the resources to fix this in any other way than how it is currently being handled? Fabs to create this kind of hardware cost billions of dollars. There is no way this is happening. Maybe the open hardware community can do something in FPGAs, but good luck