Charles Laforge <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Anyways, who has taken their kid's virtual pet appart yet? .... I
> was curious as to what they were using for brains

Charles:

At the Embedded Systems Conference last October, someone [Bob Blick
or Andy Errington, I think] mentioned that they were all (or mostly
all) ASIC-based.

This had large implications for other ASIC users... It seems that the
Tamagotchi manufacturers had locked up most of the world's ASIC
production, so none of the foundries were taking new non-Tamagotchi
designs.

-Andy

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