What are some goods that you wish were manufactured in Europe?
What are some goods that you wish were manufactured in Europe?
GPUs designed by european companies would be really nice to have made on the continent!
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I guess with electronics there is a lot to be desired. GPUs, CPUs other chips and a lot of components. Entire smartphones and laptops.
Though what I'd really like to see "manufactured" in Europe is a big internet platform. Something like WhatsApp, Instagram or YouTube, TikTok or whatever.
Oh, and for smartphones, check out Fairphone.
The Fairphone is a really nice project. It's designed by a Dutch company. According to what I can find on the internet, it's manufactured with ethical standards by Hi-P International Limited in China. And the System on Chip comes from an US-company (Qualcomm), those are produced by TSMC in Taiwan.
Hmm. So it's not quite 100% independent from the USA, then.
Mastodon? It's European-owned.
Diaspora is also pretty good.
Yeah, cheap microchips for microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi Pico and SOC computers and chips for memory storage.
If there is ever a WWIII or a global economic collapse, which climate change will make increasingly likely, a lack of the basics for IT will completely collapse Europe.
There is STmicroelectronics manufacturing chips in Europe.
... and most of the world. I guess that's the reason why we still have Taiwan as a country.