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Given that AMD and Intel are both driven by large for profit customers and their requirements, these concerns will probably only get worse. ARM is probably the
by bluejekyll 11y ago
Given that AMD and Intel are both driven by large for profit customers and their requirements, these concerns will probably only get worse.
ARM is probably the closest open chip platform out there, but even that is not Free in the FSF sense or $ sense. It seems that the project is going to forgo user-base for principles, and then most likely no longer be relevant.
It's great to try and fight for and defend your principles, but if that means that you no longer have a user base on which to stand, then the fight will be of little value. I'd love to be wrong about this, but I can't logically see another way that this will play out.
- profeta 11y agoremember that ARM is not a manufacturer. Samsung and the likes churn out the current ARM chips. And i trust Samsung with security even less than AMD or Intel.
- KingMob 11y agoIt could die off if we discover the NSA stole Intel/AMD's keys to backdoor every computer in existence.
- ris 11y ago"ARM is probably the closest open chip platform out there" I don't know what you think is open about ARM. AMD even uses the ARM locking-down technology to implement its system management processor.
- bluejekyll 11y agoI meant that it's a spec, my point wasn't perfect, but there really aren't OpenSource chips.