While open source software is taking over the world, a push for open source hardware has been quietly building.
The RISC-V Foundation has been pushing its open sourced instruction set architecture for chips based on the long-established paradigms for reduced instruction set computing. And one of its most vocal advocates is Calista Redmond, the chief executive of the RISC-V Foundation, which is working to promote its adoption.
article: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-hardware-the-rise-of-risc-v/