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Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors (www.theregister.com)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

nah it's not that simple. it's mostly about cost. chip manufacturing is hella expensive and developing new chip manufacturing techniques is even more expensive. it's cheaper to do it all in one place in taiwan instead of every country opening its own chip manufacturers. it's only now due to security considerations that this is changing, but it takes 10 years to build a chip manufacturing site somewhere.

[–] Sualtam@lemmus.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Germany is leading in optical computing. Simply why should the EU now invest in a soon to be obsolete technology?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

hah, calling silicon-based computing "soon to be obsolete" is surely something ;-)

it's like calling solar energy a "soon to be obsolete" technology because surely we'll invent fusion power / small modular reactors in a few years. how many SMRs have been deployed so far?

where can i buy these optical computers today?

[–] Sualtam@lemmus.org 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

You can order them here: https://qant.com/photonic-computing/

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

Does It even run Doom?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 52 minutes ago

sounds like it's a domain-specific processor. can it do what a CPU does? generic work with many if-statements?

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Would that it were so simple.