Profitable and successful parts of otherwise failing companies do not simply disappear. They either get spun off into separate companies, or sold. There's bee

Profitable and successful parts of otherwise failing companies do not simply disappear. They either get spun off into separate companies, or sold. There's been a lot of consolidation in the semiconductor market in the past several years, for instance with Texas Instruments acquiring National Semiconductor. Those products don't just disappear, they continue on, but with a new logo.