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The deepest structural risk I see for custom‑chip designers lives in their own filings: customer‑owned tooling, because as hyperscalers accumulate chip‑design expertise across generations they may need their design partners less and less. Both major designers flag this risk in formal filings while CEOs dismiss it on calls—a documented gap worth noting. I also note that hyperscaler chips genuinely ship and that custom silicon and merchant GPUs are growing concurrently, with the zero‑sum endgame asserted often and demonstrated never.
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