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ASML relies on the EUV technology developed in the United States by DARPA, which it has acquired by buying an American company it was initially exclusively lice
by atemerev 3y ago
ASML relies on the EUV technology developed in the United States by DARPA, which it has acquired by buying an American company it was initially exclusively licensed to (Nikon and Canon were the first in line to license it, but the deal didn’t happen due to “national security reasons”).
So, ASML is not a paragon of European innovation. Its success is accidental, and stems from a technology originated in the United States. European Silicon Valley is a contradiction in terms.
- Slartie 3y agoYou mean like OpenAI, whose LLM tech is heavily based on original research done quite a while ago by Jürgen Schmidhuber in Germany? Does that now make OpenAI and the LLM hype a paragon of European innovation, and its success "accidential"?
- hcfman 3y agoYeah, with that kind of argument nearly all successes could be called accidental.
- atemerev 3y agoBecause the origin of ideas is important. But yes, we have some original ideas in European academia. Our startup scene however is absolutely laughable (the only two countries that at least trying to do something are France and Estonia, the rest don’t even understand the problem). The “innovation grants” of 30 thousand euros (what anyone is supposed to do with these?), endless copycat companies working in “sustainability” or other European buzzword du jour which will never be scaled even in principle… etc etc.
- atemerev 3y agoIn Switzerland. And yes, deep learning scaling (by solving the vanishing gradient problem) was discovered by him, but this was a previous era of AI. LLMs required a lot of new ideas on top of that.