Re:Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy
by tigershark on Thursday September 29, 2016 @03:23AM
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I was clearly speaking about companies.
In uk there is (was until one month ago) Arm holdings, in Silicon Valley I guess you should know, Samsung should be quite famous in the world, Sony and all the other Japanese companies the same.
Which big software/hardware company famous in all the world I'm missing in Switzerland?
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Re:Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy
by vidarh on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:27AM
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I was responding to the association with computer science.
In terms of companies, here's a few of the best known I'm aware of:
An old infamous one:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
And a couple of major international ones:
* Logitech (founded in Apples, Vaud)
* STMicroelectronics (headquartered in Geneva; though it was a merger of a French and an Italian company)
And a new but still quite well known security hardware one:
* Silent Circle (security hardened smartphones)
But as other have pointed out, in software/hardware Switzerland is doing best in R&D, not least because of the high salaries, and a lot of CS grads will also end up going into jobs in companies that are not necessarily hardware/software companies but that need a lot of CS talent (e.g. banks, high tech manufacturing).
Re:Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy
by mike_hearn on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:49AM
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The swiss are very strong in biotech. Consider that Genentech, Silicon Valley darling of biotech, is now owned by a Swiss company.