[snuxoll]

To be fair, these guys aren't Intel or even AMD or ARM - they're a small team with limited funding. I'm not going to be shocked of Mill themselves never releases production silicon, but worst case their novel ideas will only be under patent lock-and-key for a period of time - someone else will have the opportunity to make use of them eventually.

With that said, I'd love to see these things come off a fab line someday - there's a lot of potential in the ideas behind the Mill architecture, whether they'll pan out or not is to be seen, but if they fail I'd rather see another Itanic than to never make it to market in the first place.