> These are things no other vendor on earth would do I really wonder why. Microsoft has some great engineers. I would assume some of the compiler or kernel peo

> These are things no other vendor on earth would do I really wonder why. Microsoft has some great engineers. I would assume some of the compiler or kernel people regularly meet up with people from Intel or Qualcomm and talk about future development. It's not really the same, but when I was working in particle physics I remember some Intel engineers really trying hard to get into contact with researchers, and trying to figure out what we need, because they wanted to sell their Xeon Phi / Knights Landing cards to us (basically GPUs for general purpose computing based on X86, now discontinued).