alt Hacker NewsRipping off designs from your own fab customers is a pretty sure way to crater your fab business, and get sued into the ground at the same time.
Ripping off designs from your own fab customers is a pretty sure way to crater your fab business, and get sued into the ground at the same time.
It's not so much ripping off the designs - nothing of what Apple Silicon is doing is particularly surprising and both x86 and Intel's microarchitectures are sufficiently different to Apple Silicon/ARM that knowledge of specific implementation approaches wouldn't be directly useful in most cases.
The real advantage is knowing exactly what Apple is launching months or years in advance, because that can inform strategic planning.