Sounds fun, but still on your hypothetical scenario: all that complexity and proprietary cores and ndas would essentially tie them to the supplier of chips, ess

Sounds fun, but still on your hypothetical scenario: all that complexity and proprietary cores and ndas would essentially tie them to the supplier of chips, essentially gagging the evolution of the whole CF architecture in the long run. If the race is for request por watt alone, then you're probably right, but there's always real-world grittiness that needs to be addresses. that's how Google succeeded right? leveraging common platforms and hardware to their highly specialized software combo.