Comment by bgnn

This is correct but one of the reasons is the SWE at HW companies are living in their own bubble. They somehow don't follow the rest of the SW developments.

I'm a chip design engineer and I get frustrated with the garbage SW/FW team come up with, to the extent that I write my own FW library for my blocks. While doing that I try to learn the best practices, do quite a bit of research.

One other reason is, SW was only FW till not long ago, which was serving the HW. So there was almost no input from SW to HW development. This is clearly changing but some companies, like Nvidia, are ahead of the pack. Even Apple SoC team is quite HW centric compared to Nvidia.