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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow lays out a compact shift: Microsoft is building Maia chips to reduce reliance on outside suppliers, Elon Musk wants to accelerate in-house chip design with as many as ten new prototypes a year, and Apple is preparing a renewed smart-home push to fill gaps in its ecosystem. The clip matters because it shows the biggest tech companies moving from buying chips to designing them, which changes who captures margin and control in the AI stack, and because Musk’s rapid-testing idea would compress a normal multi-year chip cycle into something much faster.