Comment EU Depenency (Score 1) 205
EU can cry out loud about decoupling from USA, but there is a problem of no domestic hardware.
Mobile: Depend on Google/ IOS from software point, they can fork androind the same way China did and come with their on mobile platform (HarmonyOS), but who is going to manufacturing ship form them?
Kirin, X-Ring01, etc is China CPU.
MediaTek is Taiwan
Qualcomm is USA
Tensor is google
Exynos is Samsung
Etc, EU doe not have their own mobile CPU, while they can develop their own mobile OS, they need to design their own CPU for it, otherwise they still depend on China or USA.
Home Computer: The same story. They can fork Linux and create their own OS, but what CPU will be used? Intel / AMD? Even if they switch to ARM only Nvidia and Qualcomm has it at the moment. RISK-V is not there yet. As a result they will depend on USA or China for CPU. (I am not talking about other components such as SSD, Memory, etc) Only China / Taiwan or USA can supply it.
And finally SERVER side: EU does not have their domestic CPU capable of scaling as AMD/ Intel (Xeon / Epyc), even if they switch to ARM, again only USA based CPU it capable. Nvidia, Ampere. Amazon Graviton is proprietor and never will be licensed outside of Amazon.
So they can talk about it and it might at some point they replace software from USA to domestically built, but from hardware stand point of view they will never achieve independence.