They've been making other things, too.
My Wielyfox Swift reports various Bosch sensors. Some of them are obviously software-derived versions of others (game rotation and rotation, for example), but there's at least 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis magnetic field hardware.
The sort of thing I'd once have expected from Ferranti (had they not shot themselves in the foot), Marconi (had they not shot themselves in the foot) or Smiths Industries. These days I'd have expected Japanese, Taiwanese, South Korean or even Chinese manufacture. Instead it comes from the German equivalent of Lucas.
They have to be damned good at it to undercut the oriental companies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
