Following Occam's razor, perhaps it's that it's just cheaper?
"The monthly pay ranking of German states is headed by Hamburg with 3,619 euros, followed by Baden-Württemberg with 3,546 euros and Hesse with 3,494 euros. The lowest salaries are received by employees in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with an average of 2,391 euros. Slightly more is earned in Thuringia with 2,459 euros and Saxony with 2,479 euros."[0]
[0] https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/business/pay-in-germany-...
Can you expand on this claim?
(I'm deliberately resisting quoting sources listing German regions top exports!)
Those centers of technology with their attached universities were mainly located in Dresden (Robotron) and Jena (Carl Zeiss) and some smaller locations sprinkled over the southern half of East Germany.
This 'micro-electronics tradition' carried over into the 90's after the reunification and continues until the present time.
AMD is already there and Intel is building in Lower Saxony. Must be something about the region, perhaps the chemistry since the Erzgebirge has a history in mining. Meisner Porcelain for example beat Venice and replaced good old China (pun intended).
> No one walked back anything.
I'm not sure about that (haven't heard this story).
My impression is that EU sticks to discretion very much, and they aren't free from corruption. The US on the other hand is not known to play nice with matters of law in international affairs (Edit: shouldn't have said "international law").
Taiwan is a partner was the point, I believe. Of course they aren't going to give away the crown jewels either.