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Tens of thousands of engineers successfully use these chips already without this data. Divulging this data ends a revenue stream (which funds tooling developme
by analognoise 7y ago
Tens of thousands of engineers successfully use these chips already without this data.
Divulging this data ends a revenue stream (which funds tooling development) and prevents competitors from potentially extracting useful information.
There's zero reason to open the chips up at that level.
- throwaway2048 7y agozero reason for the company selling them, plenty of reason for the users.
- analognoise 7y agoThe company spent a billion dollars over 4 years developing their new chips which, again, no professional has problems with. So if you spent a billion dollars and had the livelihood of a few thousand people on your mind, would you protect that investment? Let their "wisdom of the crowd" come up with a competitive chip that took a thousand highly trained engineers 4 years of 100% time and a billion dollars come up with their own version.