I live in Dresden. We do 70nm chips, whilst Taiwan and China are doing 7nm already. We can only do special chips nobody else wants to do. AMD already left, there's only Global Foundries and Infineon, plus some smaller local ASIC and FPGA makers. Dresden is big in embedded, kernels and automotive. But chip making is helpless.

Kernels, on the other hand, is something we have a huge advantage over everybody else. Amazon with its FreeRTOS and L4 based companies are here. Xen is from here. And tons of embedded. With chinese chips and sensors and german kernels.