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It’s kinda funny, annoying, and sad, the one company (Amiga Corp) not making a A1200 system and putting the risk/funding into manufacturing and building a system/product and instead letting others do all the work and is just sitting back sub licensing to companies like retro games ltd, and A1200.net who got rights to use Amiga on its cases, is likely the company on paper who has the most rights to it.

During the 1980s in the real world, Microsoft licensed its MS-DOS (known as PC-DOS on IBM-branded PCs) to other PC hardware clones. The physical machine manufacturing funding risk is on the PC clone vendor, not on Microsoft.

PC clone manufacturing has further split into OEM (funding risk) and ODM (contract manufacturer). PC's reference designs are done by either AMD Inc. or Intel Corporation.

In the 21st century, Microsoft turned into an OEM with the Xbox and Surface PC product lines, with 3rd party ODM contract manufacturers. Microsoft outsourced Surface PC hardware-related support to Dell support.

ASUStek itself split into Pegatron (ODM), ASUStek, and ASRock. ASMedia is related to ASUS. Each legal entity isolates the risk associated with a particular activity.

A company like Tesla Motors Inc bucks the trend with vertical integration like an East Asian conglomerate.

Last edited by Hammer on 30-Oct-2025 at 01:58 AM.

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