>> Intel being the most obvious benefactor there. No need to assume malice when incompetence is sufficient. At a guess, the SDK engineers likely had Intel wor

>> Intel being the most obvious benefactor there. No need to assume malice when incompetence is sufficient. At a guess, the SDK engineers likely had Intel workstations and didn’t test on other systems. In the course of doing low level optimizations, they may have written some non-portable code. Only recently did Google start offering an AMD-based workstation, which is highly coveted because it’s incredibly fast for building Android or ChromeOS. Maybe this has been fixed since then from bug reports.