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Yeah, that probably mixed with the idea that they should leave the space to local players (who will magically develop a cutting edge know-how?)

• ericbarrett 5y ago
  It's not hopeless for the EU—many of the necessary machines for any reasonably recent chip fab come from European companies, e.g. ASML.
  • blibble 5y ago
    buying a chisel doesn't make you a master sculptor
    • wahern 5y ago
      If you've been selling the most advanced, most capable chisels for generations, unassailable, while your client master sculptors exchange titles.... I don't know what that makes you--kingmaker doesn't quite fit--but it's not nothing. It might make you wary of getting too close (figuratively or physically) to any particular client, lest you risk falling from grace as your client invariably will.
    • ericbarrett 5y ago
      Perhaps not, but if I had burning ambitions to become one it wouldn’t hurt to be friends with Leonardo DaVinci’s supplier