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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by e12e on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:35PM (#10468869)
We already have open Sparc. Apparently what we need is a fully open SoC (all the other stuff) along with a CPU that's tested as a full ASIC (as opposed to FPGA) design. Some comments in this sub-thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458577

Personally I'd love for some foundation to just buy up Motorola and open up everything, but I'm guessing a) they depend on IP they can't open up, and b) I guess Google kept all that, and the Motorola that Lenovo now owns(?) is just a brand?

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Re:Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets by joezydeco on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:57PM (#10468953)
Moto's chipmaking division was spun off as Freescale Semiconductor. NXP (née Phillips) acquired Freescale earlier this year.

Both FSL and NXP are large ARM licensees so yeah, ain't gonna happen.

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