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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by BostonEnginerd on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:00PM (#25361473)
Europe has actually been rather successful with IMEC, their semiconductor research organization.
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by kdkeyser on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:46PM (#25365661)
The issue is that it hasn't translated into local production fabs. Which means that the semiconductor ecosystems in Belgium is still really small.

IMEC's research mainly benefits companies like Intel, Samsung, TSMC. The only relatively local link is ASML.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by BostonEnginerd on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:40PM (#25367863)
You're right that it hasn't translated into advanced "More Moore" logic, but Europe does have some leading technology in the "More than Moore" space - power electronics, image sensors, etc.

Staying up to date on leading edge logic is crazy expensive.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by jankeymeulen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:44PM (#25363531)
Europe? Imec was founded and is funded by the Flanders region of Belgium.
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