[HN Gopher] Intel Announces Investment of Over EUR33B for R&D an...
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       Intel Announces Investment of Over EUR33B for R&D and Manufacturing
       in EU
        
       Author : TangerineDream
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-03-15 13:38 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.intel.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.intel.com)
        
       | sylware wrote:
       | EU (netherlands/germany) has ASML but is unable to have high-end
       | foundries (best node process), neither able to design high
       | performance desktop/server CPU/GPUs (I have a hard time with ARM
       | since the ISA is not "free" in all countries).
        
       | akmittal wrote:
       | With $20 billion in US and EUR33B in Europe, Intel seem to focus
       | again on fabrication. Intel has struggled lately to compete with
       | TSMC/Samsung, Does these big investments mean they have a bigger
       | plan?
        
       | MichaelRazum wrote:
       | Seems like intel and co are trying to build it's factories in the
       | western countries. Basically guess it is a good idea to how some
       | diversification. Especially it seams that the world relies very
       | strongly on taiwan.
        
       | yvdriess wrote:
       | Looks like the pie is being spread by order of EU member GDP:
       | Germany gets 17B for a new fab, France an R&D center, Italy a 4B
       | manufacturing center.
        
         | _xander wrote:
         | The writing is truly on the wall for the UK...
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | More like - countries in the region that are more suitable for
         | semiconductor manufacturing (modern infrastructure, skilled
         | workers, resources) also have a higher GDP for the same
         | reasons.
        
           | yvdriess wrote:
           | By those criteria, the Benelux region would be more suited
           | (two large cargo ports, dense road/rail/canal network, top
           | universities in the field; plus: proximity to ASML and imec)
        
         | giorgioz wrote:
         | GDP of European countries:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
         | GDP in Billion of US dollars in 2021:
         | 
         | Germany 4,230.172
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         | United Kingdom 3,108.416
         | 
         | France 2,940.428
         | 
         | Italy 2,120.232
         | 
         | Russia 1,647.568
         | 
         | Spain 1,439.958
         | 
         | Netherlands 1,007.562
        
           | yvdriess wrote:
           | Yes, with the top-3 EU members being Germany, France and
           | Italy; which are getting parts of the pie.
           | 
           | I'm not counting the Poland and Ireland mentions. Those
           | already have Intel sites and at least in the case of Gdansk
           | those expansions are already underway.
        
         | giorgioz wrote:
         | Population of European countries in 2022 in millions:
         | 
         | Russia 145,934,462
         | 
         | Germany 83,783,942
         | 
         | United Kingdom 67,886,011
         | 
         | France 65,273,511
         | 
         | Italy 60,461,826
         | 
         | Spain 46,754,778
         | 
         | Ukraine 43,733,762
         | 
         | Poland 37,846,611
         | 
         | Romania 19,237,691
         | 
         | Netherlands 17,134,87
        
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