The Economist had a good article on this a few years ago: https://www.economist.com/business/2024/01/08/does-europe-at-last-have-an-answer-to-silicon-valley htt

The Economist had a good article on this a few years ago: https://www.economist.com/business/2024/01/08/does-europe-at-last-have-an-answer-to-silicon-valley https://www.economist.com/business/2024/01/08/does-europe-at... https://archive.ph/jP1HX https://archive.ph/jP1HX Basically, ASML has an incredible pan-European supply chain of the sort of stuff Europe does best. Deep tech, advanced precision manufacturing, that sort of thing. I know it's popular to poo-poo Europe around these parts, but those are the sort of thing we genuinely are the best in the world at. Technology isn't just shiny apps and LLMs. It's also this sort of thing, and the shiny LLMs wouldn't work without it.