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Now you made me think for solid 15 mins. What is an open source Intel? Intel has two or three large categories, depending on how you look at it. First the manufacturing arm, that is the trickiest to pin. Open source manufacturing doesn't really make sense, but we do have some fabs and initiatives which have an open PDK[1] and provide technology as a service. I think that is the closest you are going to get.

Then we have their chip architecture, I think RISC-V at least gives us an open ISA but I am not aware of fully open implementations. Then there is the various software Intel provides, everything from drivers to MKL. There are some open source versions of them here and there.

So can we have an open source Intel? Yes, but not in this world. Mostly because they do physical things. And I think that loops us back to CDNs because thats the point with them too.

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