http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
Might not be that big of a deal… their hardware division tends not to fuck things up like their software division does.
Agreed they have put out some decent hardware in the past. Who knows, though there is a bit of an inherant difference between making ICs, and general hardware. But oddly for some reason I’m not really worried.