Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications

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As a result, the certification scores of open source chips are likely worse than that of a closed source chip. And, since you can’t sell security chips to big customers without certifications, security chips end up being mostly closed source. However, as an open source strategy advisor, I argued that users who viewed open source as a positive feature would likely also expect, at a minimum, that the CPU would be open source.

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