Hacker News Reader

There really needs to be an open source project for a PC motherboard.

Just a few days ago people were talking about this on the kicad discord. A chinese team made an open hardware x86_64 motherboard and published it not too long ago. Then they were essentially wiped off the face of the planet.

That was the day I learned you literally cannot develop a computer motherboard without Intel's permission. Turns out Intel is no different than the likes of Nintendo.

Yes, if you want to go that route, you'll be better off going with RISC-V.

I absolutely want to go with RISC-V longer-term, but it seems we're still a few years away from RISC-V boards being a pragmatic choice for the average workstation, unless I've missed some recent development.

I doubt that.

Chinese "tinker" has been making countless "x99" motherboard that reuse consumer chipset like h81 or b85.

I don't think Intel approve that

Reply on news.ycombinator.com