Actually that's a fallacy we proved at Intel empirically a number of times. Some chips were documented and some weren't, the ones with complete documentation *ALWAYS* did better volume than the ones without.
What is true is that going "half way" sucks, if you only partially document it then your FAEs get swamped with requests for help.
Brian Swetland (npub1pcx…rjk8)
Chuck
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2026-08-26 00:32:06 UTC
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