I wrote:

> > At the Embedded Systems Conference last October, someone [Bob
> > Blick or Andy Errington, I think] mentioned 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.

and Wayne Foletta <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> replied:

> 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.

    Maybe, Wayne... Or maybe the problem lasted only a very short
    time, or maybe the information I heard was totally wrong.

    I don't know... I was just repeating what I'd heard at the show.

    -Andy

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