Russia puts its military operations in Syria on display. HEMEIMEEM AIR BASE, Syria (AP) â Russian combat jets streak into the sky from this base in western Syria for yet another day of the heavy bombing...
As is is a legal term used to disclaim some implied warranties for an item being sold.Certain types of implied warranties must be specifically disclaimed, such as the implied warranty of title.or example, a seller of a used automobile sells his car to a buyer, and puts into the contract of sale the statement: The buyer accepts the automobile AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS.. Two minutes after the buyer drives off with it, the engine seizes, and the car stalls.
Definition of:ASIC. (A pplication S pecific I ntegrated C ircuit) Pronounced  a-sick.. A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor.The use of ASICs improve performance over general-purpose CPUs, because ASICs are hardwired to do a specific job and do not incur the overhead of fetching and interpreting stored instructions.lso promoting the decline of full custom ASICs are chip manufacturers that make generic chips containing all the necessary functions for specific mass market products such as DVDs, CDs, digital cameras, etc. See structured ASIC, gate array, standard cell, ASSP, PLD, adaptive computing and CSIC.