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Re:Companies that had successful pivots by the-dude on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:04AM (#29749266)
The Super_FX seems to be a coprocessor. More companies created silicon ( Commodore? ), but not CPUs AFAIK.
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Re:Companies that had successful pivots by mattbee on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:33PM (#29750266)
It was a whole new RISC CPU. Lots of co-processors are whole CPUs. Argonaut spun a company off, and it's still shipping - the inventor said it outsold ARM and MIPS before the PS1 (from https://web.archive.org/web/20071217092221/http://www.armcha... )
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