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For Taiwan specifically, they took a gamble. The government wanted advanced jobs and I believe willing to fund it a bit. Taiwanese nationals who had hit the glass ceiling in the US because of reasons moved backed and wanted to start companies. One took the bold bet of being a chip manufacturer that only produced other companies designs, as opposed to being a company that designed and produced. Very odd when it relies on those other companies giving you work. It was a gamble that paid off.

As for risc, it’s open (someone more informed can fill in the better details) so China is betting big on it because it’s cheap. I believe it also takes less advanced chips (nm size) so you don’t have to exactly be on the cutting edge of manufacturing equipment.


You end up doing things that would (IMHO) be more fucked up ethically

Example?


Different goals. Elon’s probably more willing to make uh an unethical ai. Private company. When it comes to Tesla, no real reason it can’t fail.



Super Nintendo Switch 128 Dodecahedron V.


It’s a “Black hole” that temporarily sucks the enemy’s units in. Players quickly learned they can send in their units along with the enemies. So the trick is you send in a unit called the Archon which does splash damage. The split second that the black hole ends all the units emerge at the same time in a super concentrated area, so the Archon’s slash damage hits all the enemy’s units at once.




Sony owns Blu Ray tech but not DVD. DVD was industry consortium to prevent a repeat of the VHS and betamax war. Only lasted a generation unfortunately.


Xbox [random number or letter] has entered the chat.



IIRC stupid jump scares and stupid hidden bad guys, you had to constantly check the smallest nook and cranny.


I do turn to google after failing at DDG and the results are better.


Ugh. I use DDG for the privacy, because it sure as fuck isn’t a good search engine.






Eh yes but they really rocked the boat with the Wii going to motion wands and those Wii characters.


Last time they tried a slight upgrade to not rock the boat and maintain backward compatibility was the WiiU.




People do different things. I notice you didn’t answer.


Keyboard and mouse or do you use a controller?





Wii U stuck to it. Same motion based, same wiimote along with new pad, same CD style. They marketed it very, very badly


The Switch was great because it combined the two product lines of console and handheld into one. They won’t split them completely, just have one that’s slightly better screen.


only one whose hardware is profitable

Really? Virtually all consoles aren’t, I expected the switch wasn’t. The Wii was, which really boosted their profits.


The Switch line was great because it integrated their console and handheld lines into one. They won’t go away from that.



I think they’re still there, just haven’t been trotted out in recent history. And mergers keep getting approved.