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Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
[8] [9] In the early 1950s, Philips started with the production of semiconductors in Nijmegen [10] and Hamburg, [9] where the Nexperia wafer fab is located. [11] In 1981, Philips opened a factory in Cabuyao, Philippines. The fab is owned and operated by Nexperia. [12] In 1991, Philips founded ITEC, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment.
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Born Louis Diamond Upchurch on February 17, 1962, at the U.S. Naval Bay Subic Base in the Philippines, he is the son of Lucita Umayam Aranas and Gerald Amon Upchurch (1935–1963), [2] a Marine KC-130 crew chief. [3] His mother was Filipino, while his father was an American of Scots-Irish and Cherokee descent. Phillips has said "I never claimed ...
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP for Next eXPerience) is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [2] It is the third largest European semiconductor company by market capitalization as of 2024. [3]
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
Philippines AirAsia: REDHOT Philippines PR PAL Philippine Airlines: PHILIPPINE Philippines PHI Philips Aviation Services: PHILAIR Netherlands ICAO code and call sign no longer allocated BCH Phillips Air: BEACHBALL United States PDD Phillips Alaska: PADA United States PHL Phillips Michigan City Flying Service: PHILLIPS United States PHB Phoebus ...