Chips are sold to audiences who do care about the bit-by-bit implementation. > anything running on it You've skipped a few layers of abstraction. Chips aren'

Chips are sold to audiences who do care about the bit-by-bit implementation. > anything running on it You've skipped a few layers of abstraction. Chips aren't sold to people who implement software. They're sold to people who implement hardware. The bits matter when you're designing the pieces below the software.