The 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

The 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.