This has been echoing around the internet the past few days, but all the echoes lead back to this one comment:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

So really it's just one guy on phoronix who made that claim. Probably just wishful thinking. But if it is true, everybody with first-hand knowledge of it would be under NDA. So we'll probably never know.