> Aren’t most hardware teams typically very old in terms of having lots of people with a lot of experience who have been working together for a long time? Yes,

> Aren’t most hardware teams typically very old in terms of having lots of people with a lot of experience who have been working together for a long time? Yes, that was my experience with well-established players like AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm. Then again, there just aren't that many people in the world with experience designing GPUs or writing systems software for them. What you would often see is a manager and their whole team switching to a competitor. People prefer working with other people they already know and trust. In addition, GPUs are massively complex and it simply takes a good amount of time to understand a new architecture well enough to make substantial contributions. I spent five years at NVidia and felt that I had only scratched the surface.