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I'm Finnish, worked with a bunch of ex-Nokia software engineers on Ubuntu touch after Nokia went bust. AFAIK people generally dispersed, many started to work f
by dharma1 6y ago
I'm Finnish, worked with a bunch of ex-Nokia software engineers on Ubuntu touch after Nokia went bust. AFAIK people generally dispersed, many started to work for US (and some Chinese) companies, and quite a few IoT startups were started, especially in Oulu.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/10/surviving-nokia-how-oulu-finland-rebounded-from-the-collapse-of-its-largest-employer/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/10/surviving-nokia-how-oulu-...
https://www.eetimes.com/life-after-nokia-how-finlands-radio-valley-emerged-from-the-ashes/ https://www.eetimes.com/life-after-nokia-how-finlands-radio-...
I'm not sure we'll see a similar size global consumer hardware company from Europe anytime soon.
I would love to hear the most innovative, relevant mid-size/large class leading hardware companies HN readers can name in Europe.
imec, ASML, Graphcore, ST, Infineon, NXP, ARM (for now) - what else?