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Plenty of things that used to be Philips are still in Eindhoven, like NXP (semiconductors) and Signify (lighting, including Hue). Philips has been a huge part o
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Plenty of things that used to be Philips are still in Eindhoven, like NXP (semiconductors) and Signify (lighting, including Hue). Philips has been a huge part of what made the Eindhoven area a high-tech industry hub, even if much of it is under new ownership structures.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYes, in the past. That's what I said Philips is irelevant today. You're not contradicting me.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt's not irrelevant to why Eindhoven is how it is today, in the same way that HP is a split-up shadow of what is former influential self, but it's partly why Google now is in Silicon Valley.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoJust because it was relevant in the past doesn't mean it's also somehow relevant today if it stopped innovating, and it has. Glorious history doesn't pay your bills or increase your stock.