@Ail: There wasn't hot air. Now, the problem with the tech is, that it tends to outdate in a year after its release. What the engineers aim, is as high tech as possible as affordable price as possible at the moment of its initial release. After the outdating, it's only a matter of software optimization, how outdated it will look.
All the chipset are at least customized, so basically they are in production only because of the specific hardware (although, you do want to use as standard parts as possible to cut down the price). The only way to have a "ten year hardware" is to have updateable hardware, which so far have been seen only in PC (and even this isn't 1:1 compatible, since you can't run 586 code in 386 HW, even if the performance would be similar).
The thing is, that engineers can't make hardware ten years in advance (financial people theoretically could), what they can do is create a principle that is used still after ten years, but the hardware itself isn't.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
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