Re:Keysight UXR 110GHz Oscilloscope Teardown [video] (2018)
by cycomanic on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:44AM
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I suspect they still sell as many of these they can reasonably make, which I suspect will be significantly more than 2 or 3. I personally know of at least 5 labs who bought at least one of these in the last 2 or 3 years (I believe the URX platform is like 3 or 4 years old, but maybe wasn't at 110 GHz at the beginning)
Re:Keysight UXR 110GHz Oscilloscope Teardown [video] (2018)
by mindcrime on Saturday June 18, 2022 @07:10AM
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OK, yeah, saying "2 or 3" wasn't meant to be completely literal. The point was just to say that they cover a broad range of market segments. I'm not so concerned about the exact details, especially regarding the really high-end, exotic stuff that I'll probably never touch.
The low-end crap is not particularly profitable, but best not to cede to your rivals as long as you can at least break even.
The high-end stuff makes great marketing and probably sells better than 3 per year... though that might just be 4. JPL and Los Alamos don't really need this stuff, though they probably have something somewhere. It's really designed for high-bit-rate stuff. I seem to recall DDR5 lowest-level debug being a major use case for the UXR in the early promo materials. I'd imagine it's also pretty good for some LTE stuff. And phased-array radars, because it seems like that's always what the highest-end stuff is for, no matter what it is.