That's why we need open source chips, the same restrictions we had with proprietary software are now coming to hardware. Plenty of interesting things to do with

That's why we need open source chips, the same restrictions we had with proprietary software are now coming to hardware. Plenty of interesting things to do with FPGAs, and the community is even in the early stages of developing open source FPGAs now. It was AMD with their PSP that pushed me into FPGAs and creating open source hardware, now that everything is getting locked down.