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As open as they are, they still aren't fully open. For me, that means there really isn't any point to them.

I'd take a 486 DX4 SoC with no better than VGA output if it was entirely open.



It depends on what you mean by "fully open" (i.e. you want the mask set and design files too...?), but if you're just looking for a PC-on-a-chip, there's this:

http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86dx/

The site looks old but according to this, it's still in production:

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/are-designers-still-us...


Actually that's pretty much exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks.


Intel could have put a low-end GPU on a version of Quark.




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