A 180nm implementation of the J2 design costs around 3 cents per chip, with no royalties required. “That’s disposable computing at the ‘free toy inside’ level.

a completely open hardware design can be produced cheaply.
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Instead of running in fear of obsolescence, open-source hardware developers now have time to build communities around platforms; we can learn from each other, share blueprints and iterate prototypes before committing to a final design. The extra time also allows hardware product development to be leaner — one doesn’t have to burn money to meet a tight schedule. A team of 2 can now take 3 years, working mostly in their spare time, to build a laptop from scratch as a hobby. This is a great time to be developing hardware products, particularly open-source ones.

the only benefit of the slowdown of moore’s law i’ve ever heard of

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