GPUs designed by european companies would be really nice to have made on the continent!
All products whose production cannot be guaranteed under fair and humane socio-economic conditions and all products whose procurement outside Europe poses a risk to life and health - e.g. prescription drugs
Medicine, Electronics, clothing
astrazeneca and novonordisk both have massive european factories, so we can at least do medicine
so we can at least do medicine
*Some medicin.
Different Pharmaceuticals require very different manufacturing processes, QC lab equipment and validations and so on. Novo Nordisk can’t just start producing ADHD medicine or Paracetamol for instance without significant investments and changes. It’s a long and complicated process to get the license to produce. Not impossible, but I just wanted to highlight that it’s not so easy to just start producing something entirely new even though it’s still pharmaceuticals.
AZ said they want to move to the New York stock market last week…
I guess with electronics there is a lot to be desired. GPUs, CPUs other chips and a lot of components. Entire smartphones and laptops.
Though what I’d really like to see “manufactured” in Europe is a big internet platform. Something like WhatsApp, Instagram or YouTube, TikTok or whatever.
Yeah, cheap microchips for microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi Pico and SOC computers and chips for memory storage.
If there is ever a WWIII or a global economic collapse, which climate change will make increasingly likely, a lack of the basics for IT will completely collapse Europe.
… and most of the world. I guess that’s the reason why we still have Taiwan as a country.
Mastodon? It’s European-owned.
Diaspora is also pretty good.
