spoke: Again, I am confused. You said, Seriously. If Brad told you this, then he is an idiot.
ASICs are patented, copyrighted devices. You can't just take someone else's product, modify it, and call it your own (although Rim has done that with pictures...). The only way this could possibly happen would be if the other company licensed their product to Rim. What company would license their product to a competitor?
I thought that a structured asic was one that was made by another company, kind of a prefab asic that you buy from them to put your code on. It sure sounded that way from the article I read earlier in the year about LSI's chip, and from the IEE times article. Are you saying then, that the company makes their own structured asic and doesn't buy someone elses?