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		davexunit on April 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) Intel CPUs are anything but free. They contain nonfree microcode and other nastiness, so they would be unsuitable for free hardware projects.

pogden on April 16, 2015 [–]

I think the grandparent is referring to 'free as in beer.' It doesn't cost anything to tinker with programming because almost everyone already has a computer they use for other things. Not so with FPGAs.

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