From what I heard when I worked there, Lakefield was purpose-built for this new Microsoft platform, so it's possible that they would not have showed this to Apple until after some time.
*Edit: I wanted to add that I left about 2 years ago, and thought the project had been cancelled, along with so many other 10nm products.
Yes, BK was fired right around the time I gave my notice.
> Why left?
A lot of reasons that would sound like griping. I was recruited by Google for a similar job, but with a chance to build something from the ground up. That sounded like the adventure I was looking for, so I took the offer. I must say, it's been an adventure!
Thanks. I guess that does sums it up and align with lots of other similar sentiments I heard over the years.
Off Topic: I think we live in a world where we put too much emphasis on the positives and neglect any negativities. So we end up having any valid complains to be viewed as moaning or griping. I wish as a society there are better ways to handle these rather than simply ignoring it, which would leads to all sort of bad things happening as we seen in the world today.
*Edit: I wanted to add that I left about 2 years ago, and thought the project had been cancelled, along with so many other 10nm products.