David Rosenthal: belief

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…That’s only 1.8 million per employee. I mean, that’s actually not insane if you think that if you are Apple making the bet that this is going to have tremendous business impact and there’s not other people of this caliber, they’re all – Yeah. I mean, this is literally the guy that wrote the book on low-power high performance chip design. But then AuthenTec is interesting. This is a company that was a spinout from a defense contractor based in Melbourne, Florida. I believe most of the people from the AuthenTec acquisition are no longer at Apple or if they are, perhaps moved to Cupertino. That was very clearly a specific technology in the fingerprint sensor that became TouchID that they acquired. So they both accomplished the same goal, but it’s interesting I think they took very different routes in each acquisition. David, I couldn’t agree with you more. That’s exactly what I had in my notes. I just want to make drilling a little bit further on one point that you made of why it makes sense to do these two companies together. The ability of Apple to integrate these two products creates an advantage that other manufacturers don’t have. So, the A series chip have something that Apple market says the “secure enclave” which means that it has the ability to do processing specifically of security applications in an isolated way from other things going on on the chip itself.…

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