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It looks like you don't know much about Europe. Let's start with browser. Opera, made in Norway. Search Engine. Ecosia, Qwant. Social network: Mastodon. Ope
by rlupi 4y ago
It looks like you don't know much about Europe.
Let's start with browser. Opera, made in Norway.
Search Engine. Ecosia, Qwant.
Social network: Mastodon.
Operating system: are you kidding right? Linux, Linus Torvalds is from Finland.
E-commerce company, just a few : Otto Group (bigger than uber, close in size to Baidu), Zalando, Booking.com, Digitec Galaxus (Swiss company, now selling in Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy; way better than Amazon).
Cloud computing platform: Hetzner, OVHCloud, SAP Cloud.
Financial services: Adyen (payment company, net income about 1/5th of paypal with 1/10th of the employees), Klarna, Revolut.
Entertainment company: if you accept video games as entertainment, Wooga from Berlin made Diamond Dash, Ninja Theory UK (Heavenly Sword, Devil May Cry), GameLoft is in Paris (Assassin's Creed mobile), Rovio (Angry Birds), Team17 UK (Worms, I know a bit dated but it's a classic), Crytek Germany (Crysis, Far Cry, Homefront), Supercell Finland (Clash of Clans), CCP Games Iceland (EVE Online, EVE Valkyrie), Arkhane Studios France (Dishonored, Bioshock 2), King Sweden (Candy Crush), RockStar North (Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne), CD Project Poland (The Witcher, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), DICE Sweden (Mirror's Edge, Battlefield), Hello Games UK (No Man's Sky).
Since we are talking about AI. DeepMind started and is still mainly based in UK, although it is now part of Alphabet.
DeepL, often better than Google translate.
ASML, the single company in the world that makes extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines necessary to manufacture all the AI chips and latest processors.
ARM, based in Cambridge UK.
In the same vein: NXP Semiconductors, STM Microelectronics, Infineon Technology (originally Siemens semiconductor manufacturing division).
A few startups are doing good AI chips, e.g. Graphcore, GrAI Matter Labs.
IoT protocols: LoRA, LoRAWAN.
Open source: honorable mention to Redis, made by Salvatore Sanfilippo, fellow Italian like me.
OpenTitan: the root of trust chip that powers Google security chips in everything from Pixel phones to datacenter hardware, is a collaboration with ETH Switzerland, lowRISC Cambridge, G+D Mobile Security Germany, and other international companies (https://opentitan.org/ https://opentitan.org/).
A lot of industrial robot companies, which are essential to manufacture most stuff you buy on e-commerce sites, are from Europe: ABB (Switzerland) and KUKA (Germany) are the first and third companies worldwide by market for industrial robotics. Comau (Italy) is 5th. Stäubli (Switzerland) is 9th. Universal Robots (Denmark) is 10th. Notably, all the others in the top ten (Fanuc, Yaskawa, Epson, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi) are from Japan. None are from US.
- Aunche 4y agoThe only two actual big players you mentioned there are SAP and ASML, and those were successful prior to the EU. Everything else you listed confirms that while the talent definitely exists in the EU, it's just being squandered.
- hcks 4y ago[flagged]
- kingstoned 4y agoWe're talking companies, not open-source projects, protocols or non-profits. Europe has a bigger population than the US, so listing competitors that are much smaller than their US equivalents is not a good sign. Those companies located in the EU are mostly owned by US and sometimes Chinese investors. The reverse is not true - most US companies are almost exclusively owned by Americans. Americans own around half of all global financial wealth.
- sva_ 4y agoYeah, tbf the US does a great job at brain-draining other countries.
- kazen44 4y ago> Americans own around half of all global financial wealth. Americans also had the privileged position of being located on a continent that has friendly neighbours, has extensive natural resources at its disposal, and half the continent did not get leveled during two world wars. Not to mention, most of the financial wealth is bound up in dollars (mainly because of the aforementioned historical reasons), which in terms leads to it being stored in the US.
- kingstoned 4y agoYour explanation for why Americans (or anyone else) are rich is incomplete. I suggest you read this paper ("Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills"): https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/210a/readings/clark-why.pdf https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/210a/reading...