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Similarly, Argonaut Games, the company that worked with Nintendo to produce StarFox and the SNES SuperFX chip. Their first interaction with Nintendo was when "Argonaut submitted a proof-of-concept method of defeating the Game Boy's copyright protection mechanism."

Another fun fact: Argonaut later evolved the very same SuperFX chip into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(processor), which is used in, among [many] other things, Intel's infamous Management Engine. You very likely have an Argonaut core in your computer.



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