Intel to include DRM in new Pentium 4 series processors

[Pete Chown]

Adrian Midgley wrote:

> Open Hardware.
> We need some circulating designs for large scale programmable gate arrays to 
> produce the processor elements of a generic computer.

It can be done.  On http://opencores.net/ there are a variety of 
processor designs.  You can also download an open source Sparc clone 
from http://www.estec.esa.nl/wsmwww/leon/.

> I no longer care if the CPU is ten times as large and a tenth as efficient as 
> it could be, since off the shelf CPUs this year are a hundred times as fast 
> as I really need and if they got hotter I'd put a bigger fan on them.

:-) The Sparc clone has achieved 45MHz when loaded into an FPGA, so it's 
probably providing about the performance of a 486.  You make big 
efficiency gains when you lay out the chip yourself...

-- 
Pete