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0 pointsjononor2y ago0 comments

To be fair more than half of that laptop hardware is made in China+Taiwan, including a lot of the IP that goes into it. If you look at phones and tablets, there is a bunch of components/IP from European companies also, such as ARM, Bosch, STmicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP etc. Intel has famously struggled and failed multiple times to get into that market. European semiconductor companies are also strong in automotive and other industries that use modern embedded systems. In another consumer electronics niche, a majority of wireless mice and keyboards are build on Nordic Semiconductor chips - from tiny Norway.

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Rinzler892y ago

>If you look at phones and tablets, there is a bunch of components/IP from European companies also, such as ARM, Bosch, STmicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP etc.

But those are all low-marin chips. Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, AMD and Apple have much higher margins on their chips. They don't bother competing with the EU chips companies.

gizmo2y ago

That's all true. However, the US is capable of producing almost everything domestically, albeit in lower volume. The US military doesn't like to depend on Chinese chips for obvious reasons.

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