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Cool. We need the chips.
Besides, no corporation seeks doing it the hard way if they can copy, reverse engineer, etc. from its competitors. I've worked for several corporations that had a Competitive Intelligence departments whose job was to acquire competitors' products, disassemble, catalog parts, reverse engineer the interesting bits so they could make recommendations for what to copy in their own products.
Not only do companies do this themselves. But it’s an entire industry in itself of businesses that do this as a service.
They then charge ridiculous prices for you to search through the data to find parts you are looking for. But it’s actually quite useful and saves a bunch of time hunting and breaking things apart.
E.g. Munro and Associates.