Customizable processor cores first hit the market in the late 1990s, and since then many improvements have been made in the way these processors can be customized. Much of the process now is highly automated to speed up the process and guarantee that the processor core can't be broken during the customization process.


But before we tell you how easy it now is to customize a processor, and how good the results can be, let's first look at the top 10 reasons to customize a processor core.