ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?

Re:ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected? by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:25AM (#24481510)

The US has a big advantage with its large home market. It's always going to be hard to compete against that.

Also it doesn't help that we have such a large financial services sector. This sector soaks up a lot of graduates that might otherwise be working in technology. It also makes it harder for other sectors to compete. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Add a government that spends all its time pandering to the over 60's (hence Brexit) and you can see where we are going wrong.

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Re:ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected? by declnz on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:08AM (#24482030)

> Also it doesn't help that we have such a large financial services sector. This sector soaks up a lot of graduates that might otherwise be working in technology.

Historically - yes, but I'm not so convinced any more; young people / grads here just don't want to go into banking now (understandably IMO), and not sure the Fintech firms (that aren't pure tech) make up that much in terms of grad numbers.

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Re:ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected? by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:45AM (#24491654)

If anything it's getting worse: https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/316365/applicants-p...

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