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Ideally, any piece of open hardware would be made by multiple competing companies and they would all be perfectly interchangeable. If one was discovered to be t
by kgwxd 7y ago
Ideally, any piece of open hardware would be made by multiple competing companies and they would all be perfectly interchangeable. If one was discovered to be tampered with, you could easily switch, the offending company dies, and maybe some people are actually held accountable so others would be discouraged to try it again.
While the industry is still innovating, such an ideal world may not arise, but when things settle down and just about anyone can make a competitive version of any type of chip, it could, but only if we demand open hardware now to allow that competition to start forming.
- nrp 7y agoThe modularity of the supply chain is part of the challenge, as Bunnie illustrated. You could have interchangeability at the chip level or OEM level, but still have the same bad actor tampering at the foundry, chip packaging house, part distributor, SMT factory, FATP factory, 3PL, retailer, or any of the shipping companies between those.