[david-gpu]

> It is not TLA's, it is built in kingdom problem systemic to the way qcom runs itself

Yeah, it was one of the reasons I left. Because the chip is divided into many different processors, and broadly speaking the more area your processor takes the more your organization matters, there is this constant infighting for expanding the domain of your processor to capture an ever increasing piece of the pie.

This is of course an oversimplification. There are plenty of people just trying to build the best product they can and cooperating with other teams, but at the VP level and above it's a dog eats dog world.

At NVidia my role was much smaller, but what I saw was much more cooperative, and I think a big part of it is that the GPU is at the end of the day one giant chip that does everything and all the pieces work together like an orchestra. I even saw better communication between the software and hardware folks, which is always a challenge in the semiconductor industry.