>>56While this initiative is certainly awesome, is there some initiative that actually manufactures CPU based on these designs? It's possible that an individual is able to go visit a chip fabrication plant (in China or elsewhere) and contract them to fabricate a chip, but it's very inconvenient for most consumers as we have no experience in these kinds of processes.
What I'm saying is that I don't want to directly contact a Chinese chip fabricator and instead, I'd prefer to do business with someone who has taken the time to do all this to produce a consumer-level chip that's as powerful as a Pentium 4 or later.