So, we're getting an Airbus for Chips? Or will it more be like our Ariane missiles?
I am sure most of the money will somehow get into the hands of Airbus, Siemens and so on
EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
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Re: EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
#12Are there any companies in EU who are developing chips now? I only know ASML but that only makes the wafers. I ask as I can't imagine the government doing this. So there must be some company behind this deal.
This is the tipping of old European Processor Initiative as far as I can see. They can either leverage ARM or OpenPOWER I guess.
I don't think they'll start a new ISA from scratch.
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#13ITT bashing on EU without understanding it
I believe the 17 signing nations are allowed to inject money into their own economy. Even if the goals are a bit unrealistic.
EDIT The 2-3 years is when the funds are allocated. Not when the results are expected.
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#14Just a giveaway to the best politically connected companies. Like all such EU initiatives.
Such a tiresome and self-defeating mindset. If the EU does nothing it's useless, if it does something it's just corruption.
Of course politics and lobbying will play a role when we're talking about hundreds of billions of euros, but that doesn't mean that it can't end up being a net positive for the union.
Ask for transparency and keep tabs, don't assume that it's already lost.
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#15Always great to see how the EU squanders money on projects like that.
Re: EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
#16Are there any companies in EU who are developing chips now? I only know ASML but that only makes the wafers. I ask as I can't imagine the government doing this. So there must be some company behind this deal.
They could get into chip dev for that amount of investment money. But of course EU will just waste the money as always.
> But of course EU will just waste the money as always.
As someone working in HPC and EU projects related to this subject, I don't think they'll waste it. Current HPC and processor push is very real now.
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#17Are there any companies in EU who are developing chips now? I only know ASML but that only makes the wafers. I ask as I can't imagine the government doing this. So there must be some company behind this deal.
ASML does lithography, they do not make wafers.
NXP develops chips, especially for automotive industry.
There are also some small companies focusing on photonics in NL, Smart Photonics is one of them for example.
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#18ITT bashing on EU without understanding it I believe the 17 signing nations are allowed to inject money into their own economy. Even if the goals are a bit unrealistic. EDIT The 2-3 years is when the funds are allocated. Not when the results are expected.
Because somehow this initiative is different from all the other ones?
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#19Just by looking at the digit, it's 6 times bigger than the US programme on money spent per year.
As unsubstantiated news suggest, the most of American program will be spent on attracting few, amazingly expensive, one off projects.
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#20Always great to see how the EU squanders money on projects like that.
Wasn’t a project like that that was a starting point for Airbus?