From sand to silicon chips, openly

Where's the profit motive to develop things that can be sold on basis of value when the IP value is destroyed using an open architecture model?

It's a lot of work to develop a CPU design and it costs a lot of money (well north of $50M). Who pays for that when the value is destroyed by opening up the design so anyone can copy it?

Seems very naïve relative to how the semiconductor investment cycle works.

Asking on list would probably yield some of what you seek.