> exposing a stable instruction set would kill their ability to quickly iterate I believe the need to quickly iterate dropped significantly since we got shader

> exposing a stable instruction set would kill their ability to quickly iterate I believe the need to quickly iterate dropped significantly since we got shaders. I would bet in fact there was few such iterations in the last 10 years. Crazy increases in computing power of course, but big breaking changes in the actual ISA? I'd be surprised. > to release silicon with bugs that can be papered over with software fixes Yeah that's actually one of my goals. Only ship stuff that works on pain of embarrassment and prohibitive recall costs. It's crazy hard. It's how CPUs are shipped. > and undoubtedly to charge more for what looks like a hardware feature but actually is a software feature. Again, that's good. Such pricing tactics are scummy, I want to end them. --- Now of course, those reasons you cited are reasons for the vendor not to do what I'm pretty sure is very good for the consumer. I propose we force them. We could start small. Mice and keyboards first. Then printers. Then webcams, wifi modules... until we get to GPUs themselves.