Screw the formats: build your own. There&#x27;s all kinds of bright people doing hardware development in college with top EDA tools and cheap prototyping through eg MOSIS. One already did a FPGA architecture on 45nm:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;Pubs&#x2F;TechRpts&#x2F;2014&#x2F;EECS-2014-43.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;Pubs&#x2F;TechRpts&#x2F;2014&#x2F;EECS-2014-43...</a><p>Anyone wanting to see more projects, info on what developing open HW will take w&#x2F; potential paths, and so on can follow my links here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10468898" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10468898</a><p>Anyway, we have most of what we need in terms of tooling. It&#x27;s just going to be a huge loss getting the initial I.P. built and ASIC-proven on each process node. Best route is academics w&#x2F; professional support each doing a piece of key I.P., using grants + discounts to build it, and then public domaining it. So, who knows a near billionaire who wants to change the HW world for the better? And who can fight patent suits?