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Weitek, a Common card
Weitek Corporation was an American chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,100
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Weitek quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Weitek card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Weitek started in 1981, when several Intel ______ left to form their own company.
Answer
engineers. Weitek started in 1981, when several Intel engineers left to form their own company. From the Weitek article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
During the early to mid-____s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers.
Answer
1980s. During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers. From the Weitek article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Artur Grigorian. Artur Grigorian 63 · Daniel Narcisse 58 · Weitek 54 · Daci'en Temple 51 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers.
- Weitek started in 1981, when several Intel engineers left to form their own company.
- Weitek developed math coprocessors for several systems, including those based on the Motorola 68000 family, the WTL 1064 and 1164, and for Intel-based i286 systems, the WTL 1067.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Weitek article was read about 5,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Weitek
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Weitek (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Konstantin Lanzet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
