Fencing used for construction of the Central Subway obscures Apple's flagship retail store in San FranciscoApple Inc has sold Israel-based totally PrimeSense Ltd, a developer of chips that allow three-dimensional machine imaginative and prescient, the companies said on Monday. An Apple spokesman validated the purchase but declined to claim how much it spent. Israeli media mentioned it was once about $350 million. "Apple buys smaller technology companies occasionally, and we most often do not talk about our function or plans," an Apple spokesman stated in an email.