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I found this video quite flawed

I found this video quite flawed. What happened to Phillips is something that proved beneficial in the long run. Legacy of Philips is now ASML, NxP, pretty good startup scene in Eindhoven, and a few other companies. The only victim here is the name. If Philips tried to move as one company they would have probably dragged down their chip related businesses by siphoning money into the fields they were losing. Of course one could argue that the company under Philips name should have chose different direction and spun off consumer or medical market, but at the end of the day it's just a name. I believe in hindsight this will be a way better outcome for everyone than the one we'll see from big tech if they're not broken up. There are already too many examples of them killing competition by leveraging their monopolies or buying it up and killing it off.

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Well, no it's not flawed. For one, he did mention that ASML and NXP flourished when freed from the bad management of Philips.

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CO

Phillips alsp spawned FEI, which was then bought buy Thermo Scientific and have a near monopoly on Transmission Electron Microscopes.

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