Just spent an interesting morning at the Silicon Southwest “The Future is Analog” seminar.
A good chance to catch up with some ex colleagues from NXP.
Though the main topic of discussion with a number of people from Silicon Southwest, Set Squared and local start-ups was “why is Southampton so poor in generating silicon based startups compared to Bristol/Bath ?”.
This is very pertinant right now because over a 100 ex NXP designers are considering moving out of the area – to Bristol and Cambridge in search of work. So now is a great time to be starting up here. All we need is the expertise of some of these serial entrepreneurs North East and West of us !
