"Oh, it's just a big house," chips in my wife, brightly, while I dither over euphemisms.
It was not long before Rory became so obsessed that he was hitting balls in the house, chipping them through an open kitchen door and into the mouth of his mother's clothes washer.
Performance has been improved, courtesy of the A10 Fusion, another in-house chip, this time sporting a four-core CPU.
These companies will be crucial to IDCs future growth as larger companies move to developing their own in-house chip capabilities.
Sun resisted and focused its research spending on its own brand of Unix, Solaris, and its own in-house chip, the Sparc.
But if it can afford to make an in-house chip good enough for the iPad in 2010, might it not also be able to make one good enough for the Macintosh in 2013?
Tesla has an existing relationship with Nvidia, whose GPUs power its Autopilot system, but this new in-house chip reported by CNBC could potentially reduce its reliance on third-party AI processing hardware.
It already houses chip designers in several locations, including in prime areas for poaching from chip-designing rivals.
Using in-house chips will help it do things faster and more cheaply.
In May, the company quietly announced that it was canceling plans for its Broxton mobile processor, effectively acknowledging that it couldn't compete with Qualcomm and in-house chips from powerhouses like Apple and Samsung.
While LSI Logic (see next listing) is providing the decoder chip for Sony's next-generation DVD players, C-Cube claims sales to unnamed DVD manufacturers who have sought anonymity as they use C-Cube DVD decoder chips in preference to their own in-house chips.
