EU Signs Declaration for 2 nm Node and Custom Processor Development

[Vayra86]

In EU has fabs for chips? CPU's, GPU's, chipsets, fabs for PCB's, for assembling motherboards, for assembling graphic cards? With very large capacity of production? Where, who is?

I think my comment got lost in translation. I'm saying we don't have fab capacity, but if we WANT to have it, the machines are not the issue. We can buy things and we're rich. The issue is manpower, as we did abolish slavery some time ago.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

so they'll invest in ASML most likely.....

I read this 5 time and it said ASMR 4 times!

 

[Rob94hawk]

The EU should stick to fining Microsoft for money.

 

[bug]

Somebody should tell these guys no chip was ever built because a declaration was signed. Chips are built when you build fabs.
Within the EU, just selecting the site for a fab would take longer than it will take TSMC to flesh out 2nm. Or, as some Nokia (of the old days) exec once put it: in the time it takes us to prepare the slideshow depicting a new phone, the Chinese build that phone.

I have nothing against the initiative, but I won't get excited until there's something more palpable to be excited about.

 

[First Strike]

Come on, don't be so sour in this thread. IMO, they might have some decent progress in the end.

Look at SMIC in China. They got ~10 Billion USD government investment in past few years and they marched from 28nm to their 7nm (Slightly denser than TSMC's 10nm). And that is achieved under the hostilities from the US.

If EU can actually put aside 145 Billion Euros in time, they may very well achieve their target, at least partly. In the end, they own the EUV lithography technology, something SMIC never had a chance to access.