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		djcapelis on Jan 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. blocks Philips' $3.3B sale of Lumileds to Asi... For now maybe, but as we've seen with most LED lighting, the trend is to incorporate ASICs into the LED packages. So Lumiled's products would presumably be capable of all kinds of interesting things. If not immediately, than in a year or two.

mwfj on Jan 23, 2016 [–]

Any company could pivot to anything in the future. Why would that be relevant to a national security intervention like this?

emn13 on Jan 23, 2016 | [–]

Not to mention - if the US was afraid of chinese ASICs in general, well... it's a little late to get picky.

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