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They haven't.
Ask spaniards or italians, I know it well. Regulation and taxes have eaten up all the economic potential.
For example 25 to 31k Euro GDP per capita for 2012-2019
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What point do you think you're making with that quote? They use Chinese components... to manufacture planes... in Europe.
What point did you think I was making initially? "plus a lot of assembly to be able to call the final product e.g. "german made" and have the associated tax-cuts..." Or, in your words: "They use Chinese components... to manufacture planes... in Europe."
TSMC got where it is today because of the Taiwanese government. Same goes for ASML- bled money for decades but the Dutch government grants managed to get them over the finish line. Canon and Nikon had the misfortune that the Japanese government was too busy saving the economy after the crash. Government sugar daddies. The dark secret neoliberals don't want you to know.
> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. was officially formed in 1987 as a joint venture between the Taiwan government (21%), Dutch multinational electronics giant Philips (28%), and other private investors.
Source: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/1539-a...
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> I don't understand - do you think there is no manufacturing in Europe? A lot of minor manufacturing, plus a lot of assembly to be able to call the final product e.g. "german made" and have the associated tax-cuts...
Minor manufacturing like Airbus? What would be "major" manufacturing in your logic? I see the EU on the same level as the US. Do you disagree? And if so, why?
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You should ask your national authority, they are the ones in charge of it. Though they do seem to be doing a bad job of informing you.
The vaccines were bought by the EU and distributed by a quota system to individual member countries.
Around 2004 I visited the chipmaking industry in Dresden on a university field trip. We went to AMD and to AMTC (Advanced Mask Technology Center). It looked like they were doing pretty well, they were increasing production capacity and also doing research, and AMD and others were investing a lot of money. I think now the whole campus belongs to Globalfoundaries. It is really sad how the domestic/western production be…
Germany lost its edge not because of missing subsidies but because there are too many of them. Germany is taxing companies and people too much (40-50%) so capital is leaving the country. Actually, the same can be said about most of the western Europe.
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What point do you think you're making with that quote? They use Chinese components... to manufacture planes... in Europe.
What point did you think I was making initially? "plus a lot of assembly to be able to call the final product e.g. "german made" and have the associated tax-cuts..." Or, in your words: "They use Chinese components... to manufacture planes... in Europe."
By contrast, the Chinese COMAC airplane consists largely of of imported parts.
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?
chip production is not simply buying off the shelf equipment and magically you can get to 10nm max yield that is profitable.
equipment is one part of the whole production process. ASML may know how to build EUV but their skillset is not running the fab. if all you need is equipment, why Intel is struggling with 10nm for so long?