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Are there no any EU alternative to those gaming hardware company? If we start now making GPU and CPU from scratch, how far behind are we?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was (still is?) an AMD (then GlobalFoundries) fab in Dresden, Germany, so some local European know-how does at least exist I believe. Still probably very very far from actually independently competing with the big players

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think due licencing issue of x86 there could be problems. Maybe we need new architecture or RISC-V