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Re:Philips and the Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant ... by raverbashing on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:36AM (#35133264)
Yes, however there are a couple of spin-offs and rearrangements that happen before the "main company" failing

Even in the case of Philips it spun off NXP (which is not going great neither to be fair), ASML, Signify (lightning business etc)

Siemens also dug their own hole in severe mismanagement ("old people" running the show) and I think there's not much more left there

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Re:Philips and the Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant ... by ChuckNorris89 on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:47AM (#35134979)
>NXP (which is not going great neither to be fair)

Out of curiosity, why do you think that?

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Re:Philips and the Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant ... by raverbashing on Monday March 13, 2023 @09:06AM (#35135157)
I stand corrected, maybe I had read a slightly older FY results https://media.nxp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nxp...

(though Qualcomm has aprox 3x the quarterly revenue)

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Re:Philips and the Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant ... by ChuckNorris89 on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:19AM (#35136049)
QUALCOMM sells phone modems which is a much more lucrative business than NXP selling automotive chips and generic ARM microcontrollers.
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Re:Philips and the Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant ... by raverbashing on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:10PM (#35137721)
And NXP sold those (up to 3G models IIRC). https://www.nxp.com/products/no-longer-manufactured/3g-singl...

Why are they not selling anymore?

https://www.nxp.com/products/wireless:WIRELESS-CONNECTIVITY

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