Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Europe has fallen behind other regions in much of the electronics supply chain. Taiwan dominates contract chip manufacturing and produces most of the world's leading-edge processors, many of them designed by American companies, while South Korean and US suppliers dominate the memory market.Most major server makers are American, with China's Lenovo a notable exception. It points to forecasts that expect servers to become the largest electronics segment by 2030, ahead of smartphones or automotive electronics.The report also identifies datacenter, cloud, and AI infrastructure as the most strategically important market for EU technological sovereignty.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Europe has fallen behind other regions in much of the electronics supply chain.
- ▪Taiwan dominates contract chip manufacturing and produces most of the world's leading-edge processors, many of them designed by American companies, while South Korean and US suppliers dominate the memory market.Most major server makers are
- ▪It points to forecasts that expect servers to become the largest electronics segment by 2030, ahead of smartphones or automotive electronics.The report also identifies datacenter, cloud, and AI infrastructure as the most strategically impor
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| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:16:28 +0200 |
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