100% on both counts but don't know if it's "within a year", or within a couple.

I have this pang too, but for a different reason: everything is moving to the edge, training and inference. Who needs a complicated heterogeneous setup like this when you’re running everything locally?

Chris Lattner is now very very rich. Once his lockup expires he will not need to work for anyone.

I'm sure Qualcomm would love him to stick around but suspect that they'll maintain mojo even if he leaves.