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		amelius on July 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32 And it's one of the first popular processors developed by a Chinese company.

wycx on July 28, 2021 [–]

The core itself (Xtensa) is from a US company, Tensilica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica

musicale on July 28, 2021 | [–]

Interesting - I always wondered what happened to Tensilica.

They seemed ahead of the game in manycore, but manycore doesn't seem to have panned out.

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