Re:And the US forced China to compete (Score 5, Interesting)

The article implies the technology came out of nowhere but the "quiet corner" of the Netherlands was in fact a corner on the global HQ campus of Philips, back then the second largest electronics company in the world right after Sony, inventors of the compact disc and DVD and such, and in the same city as the Eindhoven University of Technology TUE (The MIT of the Netherlands). These guys know their lasers and their lead is real (barring any massive spy leak)