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As another commenter already pointed out, open source tends to build on open source, so I'd expect more and more complex chips to be built on the platform over
by rockemsockem 3y ago
As another commenter already pointed out, open source tends to build on open source, so I'd expect more and more complex chips to be built on the platform over time in the open. Maybe there's a future world where a viable open source smartphone can exist even.
- baq 3y agoActual designs of chips you’ll be able to buy will not be open source, with a couple of irrelevant exceptions by a foundation or an educational institution or something. It won’t do you any good, though: the feedback loop to get the open source gradual but exponential improvement engine working is too long and too expensive for hobbyists. It possibly could work with a community of companies, but my imagination stops there, can’t see how mbas could ever agree to giving away differentiators when fixed costs are so high, it’d destroy margins.