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The vast majority of users are comfortable with status quo. Therefore anyone who would implement and sell their own modern CPU with no 'features' like ME, would
by snaky 10y ago
The vast majority of users are comfortable with status quo. Therefore anyone who would implement and sell their own modern CPU with no 'features' like ME, would sell it by premium price - at least, due the much less target audience - and that will lead to audience shrink yet much more.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThat's exactly what happened almost every time. Another commenter posted a link to OSS CPU's. Two, LEON3 and SPARCT1/T2, are great CPU's released under GPL. Gaisler had a lot of other I.P. to go with LEON3. Now, tell me what FOSS loving companies brought those to market or have a board to sell me? Anyone? Bueller?
- mappu 10y agoThe Talos Secure Workstation is a libre POWER8. https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php Benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-workstation&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wor...
- nickpsecurity 10y agoWhere can I get the full source of POWER8 under GPL or another free license? I thought they were licensing it for money. I'm not sure if it's behavioral or RTL either that they provide. I know very little of it whereas I can download Leon or OpenSPARC of their web sites. I'd go with a version of Leon given Oracle is so sue happy.