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Re:Is Europe better than America for working in tech? by okanat on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:02PM (#39846986)
Bluetooth is an invention of Ericcson a Swedish company. Most of the RFID tokens in use are based on Mifare technology by Phillips (now NXP) a Dutch company. ARM is British. When you pay with Apple / Google Pay you use an European standard: EMV.

If you buy a Western-designed device with microcontrollers in it, they are often made by STMicroelectronics, NXP or Infineon, all European Silicon companies. They are all in the pockets of random people in smartphone form or in their laptops and PCs.

Klarna and Wise are widely used European payment processors. Your car's entertainment system is probably built with Qt which is Finnish. If you used Miro for Kanban stuff you used Dutch software.

Solidworks probably was used to draw most of the devices you use daily, it is French. Your electric car is probably designed in Siemens NX and they made the plug charger for it as well.

Re:Is Europe better than America for working in tech? by lh7777 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @11:04PM (#39847327)
One nit to pick — Solidworks is owned by Dassault, a French company, but got its start at MIT and was developed in Massachusetts for many years. I’m not sure where they’re based now, though.

Catia, another Dassault 3D CAD platform that predates Solidworks, is French.