And depending on others to write firmware for your hardware, I don’t think that’s a recipe for success.
Hardware team at AMD: "Sorry, hardware can't exist without software; we'll first have to write the software"
Software team: "But we're the software team ..."
Hardware team: "Uhm yeah ... seems we have a nasty chicken and egg problem here"
And depending on others to write firmware for your hardware, I don’t think that’s a recipe for success.