> What's more, SoCs incorporate components from a small number of vendors supplying designs for USB, DDR, and PCI controllers: "this means the same disused logic motifs are baked into hundreds of millions of devices, even across competing brands and dissimilar product lines."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105183378364921755

I really think this is the killer point of it all. The cores are the easy part. The digital part. Are we making headway anywhere else? Eh, yes, a tiny bit? Barely?