[david-gpu]

I am not surprised. When I worked at Qualcomm my main gripe was how closed and secretive they were about everything. The tech underneath was pretty cool, although nothing spectacular in my opinion. I don't think I ever saw anything that deserved all that secrecy, at least in the GPU.

When I switched to NVidia I was surprised to find a much more open ecosystem with good public documentation. NVidia did have some tasty secret sauce stuff that they didn't expose outright, but they did what they could to empower developers to make the best use of the underlying hardware. They strike the right balance between openness and maintaining a competitive advantage, in my view.

Just my opinion based on working in both companies for a number of years. Thankfully I no longer have a dog in that fight.

[verditelabs]

I am an ex QCOMer and agree with everything here. We always said it was a legal firm with a tech problem. That stranglehold on IP really holds the company back, IMO. Sure the licensing model made $$$ but they lose a lot of good will in the tech community.