Samsung Exynos — Samsung (South Korea) designs and manufactures (via Samsung’s own foundry) many Exynos SoCs. (not really the best option, since you know…samsung)
ARM (UK), ARM Holdings is based in the UK and licenses CPU core designs globally. While ARM doesn’t always fabricate the CPUs, its design is non U.S. origin.
Various Chinese/Asian chip companies, Some chip/SoC firms in China, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. design and have chips manufactured domestically (or regionally) outside the U.S.
Norway also has a lot of companies working on semi conductors, but not with a whole lot of CPU main designs. if at all, and no equipped fabs as far as i know to rival the US or Asian countries.
my suggestion would be “if you want something done right, do it yourself”
EU could stand to start production of their own fabs and CPUs, just to make certain. or at least designing them and send them for production to non US suppliers. but that, obviously, comes with risks.
Wasn’t ARM sold, though? Anyway, as you said, we really don’t have an option (Exynos is a (mid level?) phone grade CPU) when it comes to servers. From what I reckon, EU is investing in RISC-V CPUs for servers (sadly not so much for desktops, but still a step in right direction and I really do hope they don’t fuck it up) and that will take time and a ton of resources. Being at 22nm process tells you roughly where it stands. https://semiiphub.com/news/out-of-order-risc-v-processor-chip-eprocessor-project
Samsung Exynos — Samsung (South Korea) designs and manufactures (via Samsung’s own foundry) many Exynos SoCs. (not really the best option, since you know…samsung)
ARM (UK), ARM Holdings is based in the UK and licenses CPU core designs globally. While ARM doesn’t always fabricate the CPUs, its design is non U.S. origin.
Various Chinese/Asian chip companies, Some chip/SoC firms in China, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. design and have chips manufactured domestically (or regionally) outside the U.S.
Norway also has a lot of companies working on semi conductors, but not with a whole lot of CPU main designs. if at all, and no equipped fabs as far as i know to rival the US or Asian countries.
my suggestion would be “if you want something done right, do it yourself”
EU could stand to start production of their own fabs and CPUs, just to make certain. or at least designing them and send them for production to non US suppliers. but that, obviously, comes with risks.
Wasn’t ARM sold, though? Anyway, as you said, we really don’t have an option (Exynos is a (mid level?) phone grade CPU) when it comes to servers. From what I reckon, EU is investing in RISC-V CPUs for servers (sadly not so much for desktops, but still a step in right direction and I really do hope they don’t fuck it up) and that will take time and a ton of resources. Being at 22nm process tells you roughly where it stands. https://semiiphub.com/news/out-of-order-risc-v-processor-chip-eprocessor-project