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Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?

• btown 13y ago
  Crowd funding is great for many things, but not for a fab. We're talking >$1 BILLION in capital per plant required just to replicate existing technology (not even to begin innovating). Still, if you can raise $1B in a crowdfund, we'd love to know your secrets!
  • jimhefferon 13y ago
    I doubt that the poster is proposing to build the plant, so much as build the CPU in a plant.
  • randomthought 13y ago
    simple, lets start a government.
  • raverbashing 13y ago
    You don't need the fab, you hire one of the existing ones to build it for you. nVidia does this for example (and ATI did as well) You can license the ARM IP from a company as well (I mean, not just the instruction set IP but the actual implementation as well)