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I know it's a pretty dated view, but is it really true that most of their...profits? revenue? are in the high-speed high-dollar data converter segment? Sure, on

I know it's a pretty dated view, but is it really true that most of their...profits? revenue? are in the high-speed high-dollar data converter segment? Sure, one of those chips might cost as much as a reel of other chips, but for every van with a SIGINT box, there are thousands of civilian electronic devices.

cushychicken 5y ago
High speed A/D and D/A is a big research driver to much of their business. The advances they make in gigasample D/A fabrication, can apply across a wide range of their product portfolio. The cutting edge chips may not represent a huge chunk of silicon volume, but they are a big driver of profitability. The volume is also likely a lot higher than you realize: these ADCs/DACs are ubiquitous in modern digital radars of the type preferred by the US military. It also forms a big part of their business to sell associated components that complement the converters: clock sources, PLLs, some discrete RF, etc.