hotatenobatayaki on Nostr: I guess the economy is this: I'm claiming that it's cheaper for a group of ...

I guess the economy is this: I'm claiming that it's cheaper for a group of individuals to decap a single (multiple) off the shelf processors and confirm that they are trustworthy, than it is for giant fabs to make 'safe' and 'backdoored' version of the same IC, because making the lithography mask is a very expensive thing whose cost is amortized by chip sales