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I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that if Apple's CPU engineers got half a decade and a mandate from the higher ups, they could make an amazing amd64 chip too.


What you have to understand, these are all the same people.


Dont high profile designers have strong anticompetes?


e.g. Jim Keller. CPU engineer

  1982 - 1998, DEC Alpha processors (loved them)
  1998 - 1999, AMD Athlon
  1999 - 2004, MIPS
  2008 - 2012, Apple A4/A5
  2012 - 2015, AMD Ryzen/Zen
  2016 - 2018, Tesla
  2018 - 2020, Intel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_%28engineer%29


California doesn't allow noncompete clauses. It's why Silicon Valley exists in the first place.




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