hotatenobatayaki on Nostr: the reason why cpus are not FPGAs are simply because FPGAs are larger, less ...

the reason why cpus are not FPGAs are simply because FPGAs are larger, less effective, and pricier. It's like having a development board arduino instead of just the atmega chip.

If you don't believe in CPU manufacturers (not saying anyone should) and bootstrapping is difficult, maybe consider another route and have independent researchers decap a few ICs and see the microcode implementation, and see if there's any hidden rings or opcodes.