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Unfortunately hardware can’t exist anymore without software. Everything non-trivial needs firmware or microcode.

And depending on others to write firmware for your hardware, I don’t think that’s a recipe for success.



Software team at AMD to hardware team at AMD: "Give us the hardware with the docs then we will write software for it"

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"




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