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>It's scary when a company with chronic implementation issues decides to take on a hard problem that is way outside its core competency.

Not quite... The chip was designed by Jim Keller, who was a key player in designing the highly successful AMD Zen architecture and Apple's A4 and A5 SoCs (pretty much a legend).

Jim is known in the industry as having an unquenchable thirst for really hard problems. Solves them, leave the company to recharge and goes on to the next company/project.



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