According to Bunnie one of the major blocks is liability if a commercial provider of open CPUs also provides open pre-built code if its found there were undetected flaws, especially if those flaws can't be fixed without spinning up new chips.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 8:30 AM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested

And AMD did OEM their Zen2 to China, it's not as slow.

What would really make news in the cpu world is an...
#OpenCPU produced in #OpenFabs that you can #OpenAudit
Apparently no one has the balls to spin that up yet.