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.

▲ KingOfCoders 3 days ago | parent [-]

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

▲ cylemons 3 days ago | parent [-]

Dont high profile designers have strong anticompetes?

	▲	KingOfCoders 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	astrange 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		California doesn't allow noncompete clauses. It's why Silicon Valley exists in the first place.