I don't know if the founder of MegaChips story has been posted...

I don't know if the founder of MegaChips story has been posted here on HC but it is very interesting. Masahiro Shindo is an impressive guy and no doubt has recognised the potential of Akida. His life story can can be found on the MegaChips website: https://megachips.com/company/biography-of-masahiro-shindo/#TOC06

Here is an interesting excerpt:

7. Fateful encounter with Nintendo Co., Ltd. (2)

Challenge the impossible

The Ricoh Engineers response was totally negative they were unwilling to accept the Nintendo concept that Shindo had brought back with him. He wanted to change the situation and submitted the ideas that he developed to implement this project:

• Get a control board used in arcade game machines and remove the LSIs used for image processing, CPU (Central Processing Unit) and memory
• Take microscope photos of collected LSIs
• Cut-and-paste necessary parts in approximately two meters square size
• Place 6502 8bit CPU, which was the smallest in the world at that time , as the core part
• Scale it down to 20cm square using a copying machine.

The ideas above were exactly the concept to create a system LSI. Shindo presented the idea to Nintendo and received positive feedback. He agreed to design a two-chip system LSI. However, when the design engineers saw the scaled down design of LSI, they all said it was extremely difficult to integrate large scale circuit on a silicon wafer of around 1cm square. Shindo suggested organizing a joint development team with Nintendo members. They eliminated unnecessary functions to reduce the circuit size and succeeded in integrating the complete system with two chips.

With this great achievement, Nintendo released the “Family computer” priced 14,800 yen in 1983, and it was a great hit. The semiconductor business of Ricoh grew rapidly, and in 1990 the number of employees grew to 1,100 and the annual revenue reached 400 billion yen.