Norway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are: - Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like

Norway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are: - Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like nRF24L01, Basically responsible for the Blue Tooth Low Energy standard. - AVR: Well known 8-Bit microprocessors. Sold to Atmel - Energy Micro: Low Power ARM Microcontrollers. Sold to Silicon Labs. - Phalanx: GPU Cores. Sold to ARM.