3 - give mass volume appliance manufacturers an alternative to expensive un-auditable chips.
4 - maximize the degree of trust a customer can place in their processor.
8 provide the customer the **freedom to study, modify, and redistribute** the full SoC source from HDL and boot loader to down to the VLSI.
16 - single-board computers (like the Raspberry Pi)
21 a (quad core, 800mhz, dual issue, 4-wide FP32, CPU, GPU, VPU, [and later an ML inference core] ) SOC.