Re: more Intel bad news

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:

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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.

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Not when they are your entire business.
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Exactly.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney