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[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not true. The Netherlands has ASML, sort of a monopoly on the manufacturing of semiconductor machines.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Yeah but no actual semiconductors made here.

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[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

Well yeah because that is a near monopoly in Taiwan with TSMC. It is a supply chain and every part in that chain is just as valuable. There is a serious presence of Europe/The Netherlands in the form of ASML in the chip market. It is one of the bargaining chips of the Dutch government when it deals with the United States.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

For x86? I mean, you'd have to suck intels dick for a license. Why not just get NXP to produce desktop ARM chips.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's the point, why is nothing of this happening

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 6 days ago

At least Arm is British. Their instruction sets keep getting more popular.

Though I admit, it's a little hard for me to estimate how much of a contribution the Arm intellectual property makes to something like an Apple M5 CPU, or Nvidia Grace CPU.

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[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago

I own Irish stock! JamesHardie. I used to have more exposure to a few other european companies but that was a few years ago and cant think of what they were off hand.