With Intel shoveling backdoors into their hardware on state's orders for 'national security', do you think there will be a market for clean, unmonitored hardware?
Would you be interested in buying something like that?
>>60154761
There will be a market, but how do you guarantee that your hardware is clean? (you can't)
Until someone makes a HUGE breakthrough in chip fabrication and develops a nano-scale fab machine that costs <$50k and can fit inside a room, there is no hope for future security.
Ideally, you'd be able to build your own CPU design (or use one from a reliable source) and have it be fabricated in this machine.
An off-the-shelf CPU can be riddled with security issues and you'd be none the wiser, so producing CPUs yourself is the only way out.
Of course there is a market, but it's not that big.
Isn't RISC-V coming out soon?
>>60154761
Yes, but it's not like I could afford the $4k they were asking for for that Talos board. And the ARM world is even more of a proprietary shitshow than x86 is. I despair of free hardware ever happening in a meaningful way.
so we can't find a descent free hardware?
what about librem? and coreboot on old laptop ?