Several key M1 designers left to start a new processor design company called Nuvia, which was exciting for a while. In some respects it didn't work out well as

Several key M1 designers left to start a new processor design company called Nuvia, which was exciting for a while. In some respects it didn't work out well as an independent, as it was later acquired by (absorbed into) Qualcomm, which is already a large processor design company. But if it was cash the founders wanted, they got themselves a good exit.