Andreas Olofsson and his team at Adapteva have demonstrated that it's possible for a small experienced team to design and launch a niche processor and a single-

Andreas Olofsson and his team at Adapteva have demonstrated that it's possible for a small experienced team to design and launch a niche processor and a single-board computer board similar to the Raspberry Pi around it within a relatively small (less than 5 million USD) budget, and they even used Kickstarter to fund the later iterations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva