Only Berliners think that so as to have a reason to consider themselves better than the obviously all-in-all superior Munich ;)

It is definitely London as far as new startups go and Eindhoven as far as literal silicon is in question.

But none are even close to the original as far as the culture goes.

Berlin is SV without the sun, with grumpy people, and with entry level salaries.

I always thought about London / Zurich of tech cities of EU