In the same sense that potato chips are not a Lay’s product, because you can’t buy a potato chip, only a bag of them, and it’s not reasonable to assess the chip independently from the packaging in which it is sold, so the packaged chip is the product under discussion? Because that’s… extreme.

That's a weird comparison because if you wanted to buy just the M1 chip you are forced to buy a chassis, motherboard, screen, keyboard, memory, etc. which may cost more than the chip to begin with. Also the chip comes with zero documentation.

If you just want a potato chip you also need to buy the packaging. It’s documentation is also lacking.

M1 chip does not have a product manager. It is an internal component.

The Lays chip has a product manager.

It was designed at Apple, and is sold and marketed and branded by Apple. What do you consider it? Apple infrastructure?

I mean you cannot go to a shop and buy an M1 chip.

The best you can do is buy a product with the chip in it. But that product may not be what you wanted.

You cannot unsolder the chip because it is useless as it comes with no documentation whatsoever.

Calling the chip a product is wrong.

At best it is an implementation detail.