Sure but I'm saying ARM because the implication in OP is that Qualcomm is the only game in town for server compute on ARM, but it isn't. Even NXP (which happens to be Dutch) has some server-viable boards for ARM

> Without intel/amd/nvidia/ampere/qualcom what servers can one deploy?

ARM? Something that is increasingly commonplace as a machine type in AWS and GCP

> They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices.

You might want to contrast with Azure's recent security record. Microsoft is letting it seriously slide

> Severloh's claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians

Scaling and rotating are normally runtime things the game does with the art though, and it’s a taste thing of ‘it looks bad’

Not adhering to a pixel grid is just… not pixel art.