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It's a related idea.

With a closed ISA, the only manufacturers are closed-source and I can't verify the chip is secure under any circumstances.

With an open ISA, I may not be able to verify all designs are secure, but, I can verify that some are secure and choose one of those.



No, there is no relation.

You are conflating the ISA with its hardware designs. I'm not an expert, but imagine an ISA being like a C library API, in that case the hardware would be the APIs implementation.




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