• Throwaway
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    -471 year ago

    What was the last big thing from Europe? Alan Turing and the computer?

    Yall are already irrelevant.

    • Square Singer
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      571 year ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 year ago

      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.

      • Throwaway
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        -171 year ago

        I was thinking more IBM, AMD, Intel, Apple, Cisco, TI, and Amazon. And a bunch more Im forgetting.

        • @[email protected]
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          191 year ago

          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!