Siemens, then Infineon, had a big RAM factory in Germany before the crash in 2008.
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.
Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So there hasn’t been any RAM manufactured in Europe in nearly 20 years? Is that the point you’re making?
Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You said there never had been a culture of computer hardware manufacture in Europe.
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Uh…there would be no chip fabs without ASML in Holland.