[Arm-netbook] FSF-Endorseable Processor

[Alexey Eromenko]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
>> > what is the business logic?
>> >
>> > for this money do you get the right to buy the chip? or do you get a
>> > certain quantity (like say $10m worth)? or do you get sole rights to it?
>>
>>
>> It would be good if ICube released their VHDL to show their intentions
>> are made of gold.
>
> I would like to purchase a license to the iCube VHDL, and release it under
> the AGPLv3, or a to-be-developed 'Open Hardware License', which would
>
> a) protect both myself and iCube from competitors that wish to fab the
> core without a commercial license
>

Troy: I hope you do realize that a license could be expensive. Very
expensive. North of $500 million, perhaps a $1 billion USD.

NVIDIA says that developing GeForce GTX 680 cost them $500 million
dollars ! I think this chip is not cheaper.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"