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Calling it now: CaaS - Chips as a Service.

Soon everyone from CPUs, GPUs, memory, etc will be trying to charge a recurring fee.

IBM has been doing this for decades with mainframes.

It can be an IoT FPGA that can add (or remove) new IO ports, CPU cores, and peripherals based on licensing

and brick itself if you miss your monthly payment

Nice, can't wait on cracking my FPGA platform to get more power from a softcore.