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TacticalCodertoday at 1:06 PM4 repliesview on HN

I'm more than cautious too:

> ... initiatives that are interconnected and mutually reinforcing across each stage of the value chain, from chips, to infrastructure, to software, cloud and AI, and in synergy with past and ongoing initiatives such as AI Factories and AI Gigafactories

Software / Cloud: yes, Europe can try to do something but I doubt it. Although it should be pointed out that the EU has one software company in the Top 100 companies in the world by market cap. One. And it's that fucking lame piece of uber-shit that SAP is.

SAP: that's what europeans can do. While the US has Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, CloudFlare, etc. Not that these are all great companies but these are heavyweights compared to that pointless, irrelevant, turd that SAP is.

Chips? Besides ASML (which is only part of the chain), we're a wasteland and ASML is mostly US-owned.

Not going to see the next Intel / AMD / NVidia from the EU: that simply is not going to happen. It just won't.

AI gigafactories? Bull-fucking-crap.

The only area where Europe can try something is software but this must be put in perspective: SAP vs all the US software companies.

Don't forget all we could do is SAP. And that is a monstrous piece proprietary lock-in shit.


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storustoday at 4:04 PM

NOKIA was the only competitive/innovative EU company until US funds with high stakes in MS bought it, planted their trojan horse of a CEO and made it into a headless chicken sacrificed for a chance of MS to stay relevant in the mobile industry.

f_devdtoday at 2:49 PM

> Chips?

Only ST, NXP, Nexperia, Osram, and a bunch more obscure ones. It's not a boom, but it's far from a wasteland

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brickerstoday at 3:41 PM

ARM?

Vespasiantoday at 2:14 PM

ok how would you recommend to get started? Doing nothing will change nothing.

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