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NXP manages to do it fairly well though. Their chips have excellent upstream support.
They do, though, their chips aren't on the bleeding edge of performance so I guess they're less fearful of competitors copying their IP since MediaTek, Samsung, Nvidia and Qualcomm steamroll anything in NXP's offering. That's why their chips are mostly in e-readers and IoT devices that don't need massive processing power. Still, I'm a fan of their approach.
True. NXP chips can also be found in devices made by vendors who are too small to get a response from Qualcomm or NVidia. Unless you're moving thousands/millions of units, those big dogs won't even entertain you with a quote.