uk to rival silicon valley.

[leviathane]

sounds like a pretty cool idea to me,

Silicon Valley coming to East End - Yahoo! News UK

 

[ford prefect]

sounds like a pretty cool idea to me,

Silicon Valley coming to East End - Yahoo! News UK

We had a "Silicon Valley" in cambridge in the 80's, it produced Clive Sinclair, so it was a bit of a fail really.

 

[cHodAX]

We had a "Silicon Valley" in cambridge in the 80's, it produced Clive Sinclair, so it was a bit of a fail really.

Clive Sinclair added hundreds of millions to the value of the economy, created many jobs and gave the home computer industry a massive push in this country. He was far from being a failure.

 

[Aph3x]

Always fckin London. There are more cities in Britan you know.

 

[ford prefect]

Clive Sinclair added hundreds of millions to the value of the economy, created many jobs and gave the home computer industry a massive push in this country. He was far from being a failure.

He did you are right, he also completely misjudged the market and cost the country billions. Sadly Chris Curry didn't do much better. Clive is quite a stubborn man on that point. He hasn't used a computer in over 20 years "because they are too inefficient".

 

[cHodAX]

He did you are right, he also completely misjudged the market and cost the country billions. Sadly Chris Curry didn't do much better. Clive is quite a stubborn man on that point. He hasn't used a computer in over 20 years "because they are too inefficient".

Cost us billions? How? He generated alot of wealth, helped the economy with exports bringing in foreign currency. How is that a failure? Could have done more? Yes but he didn't fail by any stretch of the imagination.

Oh and didn't Acorn go on to form ARM who are still a big success to this day? Take a mobile phone, there is a good chance it has a microprocessor using an ARM design.

 

[gohan]

awww man i hoped silicon valleys was to do with massive boobs


thread is a desapointment

 

[Ezteq]

thought this was a post about epic wonder-gel bras...sorry. Too technical for me and no boobs involved, I'm outta here!

 

[ford prefect]

Cost us billions? How? He generated alot of wealth, helped the economy with exports bringing in foreign currency. How is that a failure? Could have done more? Yes but he didn't fail by any stretch of the imagination.

Oh and didn't Acorn go on to form ARM who are still a big success to this day? Take a mobile phone, there is a good chance it has a microprocessor using an ARM design.

Clive could have done more, yes. He saw the computer revaloution as being over by the mid eighties and wanted to push his toy car instead. He's at it again now!

Acorn did go on to form ARM yes, and GIS, where Curry is still the MD I believe, but he saw the ARM ltd side of the business as a small operation. He focused (from his point of view quite rightly on the smart card enterpises of GIS, and the dream of a realy silicon valley in the UK vanished. ARM simply wasn't strong enough at the time to compete with its US rivals, and really it wasn't until a stroke of fortune with RISC that the company became truely profitable. Both of them misread the market, but yes Chris Curry did become a huge sucess reguardless, but those mistakes cost the UK a lot in the computer revolution.

 

[cHodAX]

Clive could have done more, yes. He saw the computer revaloution as being over by the mid eighties and wanted to push his toy car instead. He's at it again now!

Acorn did go on to form ARM yes, and GIS, where Curry is still the MD I believe, but he saw the ARM ltd side of the business as a small operation. He focused (from his point of view quite rightly on the smart card enterpises of GIS, and the dream of a realy silicon valley in the UK vanished. ARM simply wasn't strong enough at the time to compete with its US rivals, and really it wasn't until a stroke of fortune with RISC that the company became truely profitable. Both of them misread the market, but yes Chris Curry did become a huge sucess reguardless, but those mistakes cost the UK a lot in the computer revolution.

Lol the guy is a bit nuts, defo. Agreed both could have done better, still they were alot better than that slag Alan Sugar who had alot of success but didn't innovate at all, just bought in other peoples ideas.

 

[Sparx]

Lol the guy is a bit nuts, defo. Agreed both could have done better, still they were alot better than that slag Alan Sugar who had alot of success but didn't innovate at all, just bought in other peoples ideas.

like microsoft