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  1. Thank you for the color, Thom. I'm still curious whether it was ever considered to contract out (or hire the means to develop internally) any custom silicon. Without an exclusive license (which I doubt TI gave them), using off the shelf chips is a not the most sound choice from a business perspective, as competitors can easily copy (although with 20/20 hindsight, that didn't turn out to be how the market played). There were better custom/proprietary chips out there, and other players in the market who had the means to engineer their own ICs. Would love to know whether my childhood console system was ever contemplated to be something even better than what it was.
  2. Would love to know whether they ever considered using a more powerful graphics processor than the relatively off-the-shelf TI processor with only 16 colors / 1 color per sprite.
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