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They needed the IP.
You can't just build a 3D accelerator. It's billions of dollars in licensing basic building blocks.
Easiest way to get in is to buy your way in.
Yet they were capable of building one over the last decade or so with their Arc GPUs. I'm saying they should have started a decade earlier.