Its indicative of an extremely high barrier to entry into the CPU market, and certainly a large part of that has to do with both industry collusion to keep comp

Its indicative of an extremely high barrier to entry into the CPU market, and certainly a large part of that has to do with both industry collusion to keep competition down and the behavior of corrupt government actors under their payroll. It also shows that the market of people willing to put money where their mouth is on this are fairly few and far between. The Raptor workstation crowdfunding campaign promised to get rid of all the proprietary firmware in the system and failed by a large margin.