What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
This open source chip is an FPGA with all the cost and speed limitations that carries.  What would it take to create a truly open-source chip?  I assume a chip fab can be contracted to build them given a workable design.  Is this conceivable for a general purpose CPU?  Will these FPGA approaches get us closer to such a goal?