Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness
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In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America
That's just article about software. Software is easy replaceable and relativly low cost compared to hardware. And who needs software if you don't have hardware to run it.
Europe is lacking semiconductor companies after almost all died. The last one are NXP and Infineon but can't compare them to TSMC Intel or Samsung. ARM is just a documentation and licensing company. TSMC foundry in Dresden is planned for 2027 and it's at most 22nm process. If China starts with Taiwan only country capable to go lower than 5nm is USA and maybe Samsung in Korea right now.
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In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America
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That's just article about software. Software is easy replaceable and relativly low cost compared to hardware. And who needs software if you don't have hardware to run it.
Europe is lacking semiconductor companies after almost all died. The last one are NXP and Infineon but can't compare them to TSMC Intel or Samsung. ARM is just a documentation and licensing company. TSMC foundry in Dresden is planned for 2027 and it's at most 22nm process. If China starts with Taiwan only country capable to go lower than 5nm is USA and maybe Samsung in Korea right now.
There's STMicroelectronics too.
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In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America
It wasnt really an issue until now
. Who would have though a founding member of NATO would go to the other side!But Europe weaned themselves off Russian gas, they can rebuild their own domestic defence industry.
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