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And what are 'the Europeans' going to do with said chips? Bosch is investing in automotive as Europe has plenty of world leading car companies. What world lea
by ulfw 5y ago
And what are 'the Europeans' going to do with said chips?
Bosch is investing in automotive as Europe has plenty of world leading car companies.
What world leading mass-market hardware tech companies does Europe have, which would warrant domestic chip production?
- pjc50 5y ago> warrant domestic chip production There are already loads of plants serving the domestic electronics industry? ST? Siemens? NXP? Infineon? https://www.ft.com/content/f946703e-5d1e-4328-bd54-63f30ff49d9b https://www.ft.com/content/f946703e-5d1e-4328-bd54-63f30ff49...
- turbinerneiter 5y agoYou could argue that the lack of mass-market hardware is because of, not due to missing domestic chip production. Not sure if it would be true tough.
- mschuster91 5y ago> What world leading mass-market hardware tech companies does Europe have, which would warrant domestic chip production? AMD actually used to have a fab in Dresden, they spun it off to GlobalFoundries in 2012. Europe as a market of about 450M people should have enough demand to saturate a fab with GPUs and CPUs.
- numpad0 5y agoElectric vehicle inverters? Each motors in an EV require its own 1kV/1kA programmable switching supply to operate.
- philipkglass 5y agoYes, those are valuable but power electronics don't need/use leading edge processes with EUV photolithography. Building more European fabs for power devices would be affordable and useful but it wouldn't compete with TSMC for advanced CPUs and GPUs.