In the meanwhile, EU also have to focus on manufacturing of the chips themselves in the long run, instead of depending on a 20 million nation.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The EU should secure a deal with Taiwan. The US has already tried to extort money of Taiwan by threatening the removal of protection. For the sake of democracy’s power and prosperity, the EU should offer to officially protect Taiwan. Having access to quality chips is key to all sorts of things.
Anyhow, the channel ‘Asianometry’, has a video covering the EUV machines. They are an incredible linchpin of our modern world.
narinciye@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The technology behind these 4nm chips and most of the lithography technology comes from EU.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Mainland Europe has never had a culture of computer hardware development or manufacture. They’ve been coasting on the United States and Britain since WWII. Name me a CPU architecture developed in the EU. There’s one, ARM. British.
Furthermore, Europe just doesn’t have the work ethic to run a chip fab. You know those attempts to bring fabs to the United States? They’re running afoul of American labor laws, turns out American citizens won’t work 14 hour days like the Taiwanese. You lazy ass Europeans with your 51 weeks of vacation a year don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of making your own CPUs.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Uh…there would be no chip fabs without ASML in Holland.
Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Siemens, then Infineon, had a big RAM factory in Germany before the crash in 2008.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
So there hasn’t been any RAM manufactured in Europe in nearly 20 years? Is that the point you’re making?
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Making the end product you are right, but much of the R&D of our modern world comes out of Europe. Like IMEC. Interesting watch as I was totally unaware of this until it popped up on my YouTube feed. Sure Europe can switch to manufacturing if they desire.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The EU does not have the military capacity to protect Taiwan.
That’s not mentioning that the EU is not a military alliance. That’s the first political challenge to tackle.
So true. This stuff is absolutely mind-blowing. Especially if you are old enough to remember how some of that seemed like almost unsurmountable problems. Now the solution are used in mass production.