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 <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

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     [2]https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-t
     ested
     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.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested