See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON > the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten I'd s

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON > the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten I'd say it depends a bit. IBM still throwing money at POWER is interesting. The openSPARC is interesting for certain embedded applications that deal with signal processing - where there's real work to be done both in software and hardware (asic / fpga) - like wireless communication. Having a few sparc cores that run Linux well ready to drop in on a fpga is very nice. But for consumer hw... Yeah, it's difficult to compete with arm on one side and Intel/AMD on the other. Remember that even transmeta had to throw in the towel trying to compete in that space.