It’s become cliché to talk about inventions that can ‘change the world’, but when it comes to transversal technologies – cross-cutting tools with the potential to transform multiple industries – the moniker feels like an understatement, writes Andrew Chakhoyan.
What was the last big thing from Europe? Alan Turing and the computer?
Yall are already irrelevant.
Ever heard of ASML? Literally the only company worldwide that can build the machines that make modern high-performance chips.
Without ASML the device you posted your comment from wouldn’t exist.
But yeah, irrelevant.
The World Wide Web comes to mind. Also mRNA vaccines from Biontech were a big thing. Pfizer ended up getting a lot of credit for producing them, but the tech is very much German.
Oh give me a break. Without Comirnaty, you would still be sitting in Lockdown.
Oh honey… Facebook & twitter are not the big things that you think they are.
I was thinking more IBM, AMD, Intel, Apple, Cisco, TI, and Amazon. And a bunch more Im forgetting.
If you consider that England used to be in the EU, the world runs on ARM (even your fancy new Apple M1 or M2 chips). STMicro and Nordic semi are huge players in the embedded space. There’s even Spotify!
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Airbus was probably the last major European success story.