The manager many not know but the market does and there have been announcements and the stock is up and for the day the fifth most active of all US markets. At 2 pm #2 Bert Kehren
Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A -------- Original message --------From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <[email protected]> Date: 3/3/18 9:30 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]>, Anders Wallin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Microsemi up for sale? I asked the CBT manager at Microsemi about this rumor and he disavowed any knowledge of this. He told me they were making 8 a week (not clear if this is just 5071A's, or includes replacement CBT's). I don't remember the production ever being anywhere near this level. The reason for the relatively brisk sales is that the risk of GPS spoofing means that various military and 3 letter agencies need to own dedicated 5071's. With a large installed base of 5071's, there will be a guaranteed market for replacement tubes. The US government considers the 5071A to be of great strategic importance and would be certain to "encourage" its continued production in case of any business reorganization. When we designed the 5071A twenty five years ago, it seemed that there were two safe bets: 1. Working Cs standards (outside the lab) would obsoleted by what HP called "smart clocks" running off of GPS. 2. Magnetic state selection, as used in the 5071A, would be replaced by optical pumping. Len Cutler was heartbroken that HP/Agilent management wouldn't fund this effort. It turns out that, even now in 2018, optical pumping is not ready for prime time in a working standard because the lasers drift over time. The 5071A's claim to fame is that you turn it on and it just works ... until it runs out of cesium. That is another reason the 5071A isn't going away any time soon. Rick Karlquist N6RK Member: 5071A design team On 3/3/2018 1:22 AM, Anders Wallin wrote: > Just a change to the last part of the name then ;) > https://www.ft.com/content/10192a2a-1d99-11e8-956a-43db76e69936 > "semi" -> "chip" > > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:27 AM, Clint Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perhaps of interest to the list >> >> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/microsemi/ >> >> -- >> Clint. >> >> *No trees were harmed in the sending of this mail. However, a large number >> of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.* >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
