Can someone explain to me why the knowhow that European companies like ASML have can't be used to build these foundries. Why do they need Intel or TSMC?
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Maybe some startup in Cambridge can come up with an advanced risc machine.
Unfortunately that wouldn't count as European, after Brexit :-)
EU is a few decades old failed experiment, Europe exists for thousands of years.
There is only talk of subsidizing EU chip production, because a few German car executives got worried.
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Unfortunately that wouldn't count as European, after Brexit :-)
Stop mixing Europe with the EU. EU is a few decades old failed experiment, Europe exists for thousands of years. There is only talk of subsidizing EU chip production, because a few German car executives got worried.
Why do people say this with such conviction?
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#26Can someone explain to me why the knowhow that European companies like ASML have can't be used to build these foundries. Why do they need Intel or TSMC?
Unlike the green initiatives funding (try and get that as a startup hah), money going straight to multibillion euro companies might not be a bad thing in this case.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop mixing Europe with the EU. EU is a few decades old failed experiment, Europe exists for thousands of years. There is only talk of subsidizing EU chip production, because a few German car executives got worried.
>EU is a few decades old failed experiment Why do people say this with such conviction?
Bernard Connolly has predicted it all in the 90's.
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#29Europe is just as natural a fit as Arizona for high-end chip manufacturing.
Perhaps more as the main equipment manufacturers are here.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately that wouldn't count as European, after Brexit :-)
Stop mixing Europe with the EU. EU is a few decades old failed experiment, Europe exists for thousands of years. There is only talk of subsidizing EU chip production, because a few German car executives got worried.