ha, the u.s. cant defend democracy on u.s. servers!
won’t
Europe doesn’t need US servers. Europe can make their own.
Can we, though? Starting with what CPU exactly?
It’s not about hardware, but about controlling flow of information (so software). But ASML does hold a virtual monopoly on the machines TSMC buys to make chips for the brand names we know of.
I’d argue it’s both hardware and software while the later is much more easier because OSS and less resources. Yes, ASML has a monopoly over high end lithography machines, but that’s just a machine required to build final product which is still American at the end of the day.
You’re strangely insisting that the final product be American.
Whose products are Intel, AMD and Apple chips? Who dictates who can use them and not?
See? You chose Intel, AMD and Apple.
What other server and desktop chips are there? Sure, there are some ARM based server ones but still American.
Samsung Exynos — Samsung (South Korea) designs and manufactures (via Samsung’s own foundry) many Exynos SoCs. (not really the best option, since you know…samsung)
ARM (UK), ARM Holdings is based in the UK and licenses CPU core designs globally. While ARM doesn’t always fabricate the CPUs, its design is non U.S. origin.
Various Chinese/Asian chip companies, Some chip/SoC firms in China, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. design and have chips manufactured domestically (or regionally) outside the U.S.
Norway also has a lot of companies working on semi conductors, but not with a whole lot of CPU main designs. if at all, and no equipped fabs as far as i know to rival the US or Asian countries.
my suggestion would be “if you want something done right, do it yourself”
EU could stand to start production of their own fabs and CPUs, just to make certain. or at least designing them and send them for production to non US suppliers. but that, obviously, comes with risks.
Wasn’t ARM sold, though? Anyway, as you said, we really don’t have an option (Exynos is a (mid level?) phone grade CPU) when it comes to servers. From what I reckon, EU is investing in RISC-V CPUs for servers (sadly not so much for desktops, but still a step in right direction and I really do hope they don’t fuck it up) and that will take time and a ton of resources. Being at 22nm process tells you roughly where it stands. https://semiiphub.com/news/out-of-order-risc-v-processor-chip-eprocessor-project
