Yeah, who knows. I mostly think the Mill is a pile of interesting ideas that just might, if they're very lucky, eventually become a product. I'm certainly not

Yeah, who knows. I mostly think the Mill is a pile of interesting ideas that just might, if they're very lucky, eventually become a product. I'm certainly not holding my breath though. Regarding their intentions, they've said repeatedly that they want to sell chips. It'd therefore be pretty stupid IMHO to not open up as much as they can the toolchain to get software to run on their chips, including the specializer. For that matter they should definitely also be releasing the chip specification data (insn/op bit patterns, functional unit slot arrangement, latencies, etc) that's used to create the specializer so people can roll their own if they want. Then again this is the same world where Intel ME is an ultra-suspicious closed blob and you can't get datasheets on tons of chips to save your life, which makes no sense to me either. So I'm probably not a very good judge of what's reasonable.