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>I'd love to see a "pure" x86 implementation without any of the user-hostile crap, and see how far the community can take it;

And who would make the tens of billions of investment to build a fab for that?



Not even amd/nvidia have their own fab at this point so it is probably safe to say you wouldn't need one for that either. You'd still need tons of cash of course but not quite as much.


The existing fabs (TSMC, Samsung, GF etc and possibly even Intel under their new strategy) would probably make the chips you designed, if you pay for enough volume that is.




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