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Philips is a Dutch multinational technology giant with headquarters in Amsterdam, and its business today includes healthcare, consumer lifestyles and lighting. It employs over 120,000 people around the world, and it has annual revenues of approximately €24 billion.
Philips Semiconductors was founded in 1953, and it produced its first integrated circuits in 1965. Philips and Sony invented the compact disc in the early 1980s, and this revolutionary device provided superior sound quality to the existing audio cassettes as well as scratch-free durability. Sony and Philips introduced the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) in 1997, and DVDs offer greater capacity than compact discs while having the same physical dimensions.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Philips. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_26
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