Musk last year
hired chip design legend Jim Keller, who had been at AMD (amd) for years, sparking speculation that the electric carmaker would go that route to enhance the self - driving capability of future vehicles.
Not exact matches
CEO Brian Krzanich has been building Intel's business as a
chip maker for
hire, printing up
chips designed by other companies at its cutting - edge foundries, instead of using the factories exclusively for its own
designs.
Google has been
hiring and dabbling with its own custom
chip designs, and Microsoft and Qualcomm this year started pushing Windows on ARM as an alternative to the typical Intel - powered laptops.