> The number of people on this planet with the singular knowledge to build a modern processor, from scratch, I would estimate is well under 1,000 I am pretty s

> The number of people on this planet with the singular knowledge to build a modern processor, from scratch, I would estimate is well under 1,000 I am pretty sure that most EE/CE students at some point or another implement a basic processor on a fpga. That being said, I am not sure how many of them would be able to build a "modern" one.