This article is worth skimming/reading in order to fill in the technical gaps in the Bloomberg article; but also describes the complexity of modern computers in

This article is worth skimming/reading in order to fill in the technical gaps in the Bloomberg article; but also describes the complexity of modern computers in a way I didn't previously appreciate. What's still missing in the overall story, is what Apple and Amazon denials mean. The Bloomberg article says Apple and Amazon independently discovered these chips (Amazon via a 3rd party) in 2015; but the blanket denials by both companies appear to deny this discovery and reporting to U.S. authorities. I'd argue it's unethical for a company to apply falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus to a PR statement, but it's plausible there is a sufficiently misleading or false claim in the Bloomberg article that they feel it's legitimate to dismiss the entire article. In the meantime, the company denials have to be treated as conjecture.