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Apple product still got that distinguish look of the minimalistic ID - even the new air pod.  Look like his DNA has been seed well (at least so far) and still rings the cash bell.  He should be smile for his mark on Apple, hard to erase even website no longer mention his name.  IMHO.  Well done and march on to new front. :-)

repair lost usually not the "common" fault involved - such as drop on the floor (not mountain climb fall from cliff), short dump or rain, etc.  Those are predictable and sort of easy to repair (3rd party repair house usually capable of taking care of that at reasonable cost with OEM parts).  repair gets tricky when deal with "user abuse" - excessive bent, etc. especially near the end of warrentee someone try to get a "new" device to put into microwave for example... Those are costly to trouble shoot - especially the user normally wouldn't tell you the true story, but fabricated some tall tail to cover the track - 3rd party repair house most likely not going to deal with "user abuse", most likely, just tell the user to take a hike...Most likely end up in the Apple repair house.  Those abuse cases are true money losing business.  If got legal involved - such as causing fire, damage my finger, etc. etc. major money outflow cases.  I am sure apple has fair amount of grief... Compare to 3rd party vs inhouse repair business cost is basically compare apple to oranges.... IMHO. 

should do the same for some of those activator shareholder proposals.... Good Apple and  Intel with strong backbones ;-).  

NPU? grid layout with limited logic to direct traffic?  Cool (low temp).  Qualbit? that would be even better ;-) and faster not mention lower power... imagination runs wild... Can't wait to see the details.  Best of luck.  watch out $.  50 mil is not big sum, limit FPGA interation and rev.... hopefully, hand route some of it rather than rely on simulated annealing... otherwise, need more dough and time  ;-).  

interesting.  i thought ATT bell lab did have multi-frequency transmission in high speed many moons ago (early 90s?).  Patent expired? or it is completely different technology?