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No, I think that was always a "reds under the beds" fear. They did purchase chips to attempt to copy them, but the idea that they purchased loads of games machines to dismantle and extract the chips for mass production is, I think, an Urban Legend. They did manufacture look-alike versions of then chips, just as they did of many western products such as the Boeing 727 and Concorde.
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