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by unionpivo 2144 days ago
first you have to have open source chip, and then have fabs willing to want to make it (and someone willing to pay them up front), and have phone makers want to use it..

And no changing chips every few months possibly breaking compatibility (people working around your bugs) is not a feature that a lot of hw designers want.

This may change eventually. I have high hopes for RISC V but we will see