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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: more Intel bad news
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On 29/06/2025 2:12 am, Theo wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>> On 29/06/2025 1:01 am, john larkin wrote:

<snip>

> Philips was good at optics (lighting, medical imaging, LCDs) and the
> semiconductor research divisions were really good. Another company to add to
> the list of messes.

Philips had their "Nat Lab" - natural philosophy laboratory, for 
academic physics, and other pure science stuff - from way back.

The process of getting from pure science to saleable technology didn't 
always run smoothly, but they did have some notable successes.

My wife and I lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2012 and 
we did have some contact with that.

>>> When your compensation is mostly the value of your stock options,
>>> complicated things like transistors are an annoyance.
>>
>> Not when they are your entire business.
>>
> Exactly.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney