That makes total sense. The paranoid approach to software involves writing N separate pieces using teams that can't talk to each other to minimise how many peop

That makes total sense. The paranoid approach to software involves writing N separate pieces using teams that can't talk to each other to minimise how many people know what the overall system can do. Applying the same reasoning to hardware seems to end up with this conclusion (and probably some enthusiasm for FPGAs). I'm curious to what extent software built in this isolated silos scheme actually works, best guess is it's OK but slow and expensive to build. Same idea might apply here, i.e. it's a way to make hardware take longer to put together.