Andy:

I don't understand - all reports I have read indicate we have half idle
wafer fabs world-wide and capacity expanding in all product lines at
twice the demand rate. What's unique out Tamagotchi ASICs? Maybe the fab
houses are just turning away low margin ASIC customers.

- Wayne Foletta
BMI - Saratoga, CA

> ----------
> From:         Andrew Warren[SMTP:fastfwd@IX.NETCOM.COM]
> Reply To:     pic microcontroller discussion list
> Sent:         Saturday, January 24, 1998 9:32 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [Way, Way OT] Tamagotchis and VPs
>
> 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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