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Re:The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation by kragen on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:15PM (#30080417)
There are a couple hundred FOSS CPU designs actually:

https://tomverbeure.github.io/rtl/2018/12/06/The-VexRiscV-CP...

https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc-overvi...

https://opencores.org/projects?expanded=Processor

I agree that manufacturing is a real problem. FOSS processors can get adoption but until we open up the manufacturing pipeline they won't provide end users with the benefits we get from FOSS software.

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