Are you aware of how much "ewaste" is still viable and will 'lose support' for these Big Brother chip designs, but still be plenty serviceable by a normal person?
Windows 11 requiring a TPM has already locked some people out of their zeitgeist. There is more old circuitry that can get the job done well enough, they'd be competing with prior freedoms.
Don't see why it couldn't happen. Offload data communications to it's own chip, one that connects to a StarNet. Locked down running a Java Virtual Machine presenting an optical browser to your eye retina's; surveillance controlled as it's hooked to your brains cortex via Elon's animal killing NutellaLink.
