Originally Posted by
Sandra
I think Phillips, when they were based in Holland made a lot of their own components such as capacitors and resistors, way before ICs were becoming common place. I know their CRT tubes were manufactured in the UK at a factory not many miles from me by a company called Mallards. These days mass production keeps costs down so I imagine all the manufacturers will just put out to tender between the few component manufacturers left, that they need x number of chips that are to such and such specification as each company cant afford to have their own factory just making ICs for their own equipment.
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