Europas unaufhaltsamer Niedergang der Halbleiterindustrie
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/12/25/europe-s-relentless-semiconductor-decline_6748832_19.html
Von raill_down
Europas unaufhaltsamer Niedergang der Halbleiterindustrie
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/12/25/europe-s-relentless-semiconductor-decline_6748832_19.html
Von raill_down
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Totally get the frustration. One small step would be the EU actually enforcing big public procurement to use EU-made chips where possible. Guaranteed domestic demand might make building fabs here slightly less suicidal.
Duh?
Who ever authored that article should do their homework. Europe’s largest tech company controls about 85% of the worlds ability to make chips for computers, phones and and rest of the digital tech for home and business.
[ASML – Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding)
>*ASML Holding N.V. (commonly shortened to ASML, originally standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Dutch multinational corporation and semiconductor company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of photolithography machines which are used to produce integrated circuits. It is the largest supplier for the semiconductor industry, as well as the most advanced producer of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) photolithography machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced chips. As of December 2025, its market capitalization was approximately $419 billion, making it Europe’s largest technology company and one of its most valuable firms overall.*
Europe always waits till the value of something is obvious and has been proven by someone else before actually investing in it. And by then, it’s already way too late.
It happened with semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, reusable rocketry, defense, energy, and soon it will happen with AI.
If you keep relying on US companies to do anything this is what happens.
We need a EUSMC company backed by EU funds for tomorrow, chip shortages keep stopping our production lines and nobody is taking it seriously.