RE: philips????
Philips. They are a great bunch of people.
I have dealt directly with their semiconductor
group down in San Jose (the bulk of their designs are done in Normandy, France). With the acquisition of VLSI they also have a bery powerful RF ASIC group in the UK (designed Bluetooth baseband chip for Ericsson.
If this is the announcement then they have hooked up with a very bright group of people with some
interesting long term plans (sorry cannot say , under NDA)
Good job.