US is dependent on European tech too, chips bosses warn

(Pieter Haeck – Politico) The rest of the world including the U.S. relies on Europe for essential chipmaking technology, officials and executives said Monday. The European Commission’s top tech official and chief executives of Belgian chips R&D centre Imec and Dutch chips tool supplier ASML made the comments at the inauguration of a €2.5 billion chips research hub in Leuven, close to Brussels. “It’s true that we do have some of the key technologies, like ASML, that everyone is dependent [on] globally,” the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen told POLITICO in an interview on the sidelines, in reference to the Dutch chips giant.

US is dependent on European tech too, chips bosses warn – POLITICO