Posts tagged "europe"

DeepSeek's homegrown chip tests Europe's paper AI sovereignty

makas | July 19, 2026 | deepseek, inference, china +2 | 0 comments | 4 views

# Why DeepSeek's own chip is the test Europe keeps refusing to take On July 7, Reuters reported — based on three people familiar — that DeepSeek is designing its own AI chip. It is an inference accelerator, designed to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, and the project …

Europeans Are Abandoning US Cloud Storage: Here's Why

sandro | May 26, 2026 | digital-sovereignty, eu-tech-policy, europe +1 | 1 comment | 60 views

European companies, governments, and institutions are moving their data away from American cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud at an unprecedented rate. The reason is a powerful US law called the Cloud Act, combined with growing geopolitical instability, which has made storing European data on US-controlled servers …

Europe's Semiconductor Wake-Up Call: From Strategic Dependency to Digital Sovereignty

sandro | May 24, 2026 | semiconductor, digital-sovereignty, chip-manufacturing +3 | 0 comments | 40 views

The Dutch government's intervention in Nexperia — a Chinese-controlled chipmaker — has sent shockwaves through the European tech industry, exposing an uncomfortable truth: Europe remains dangerously dependent on foreign semiconductor supply chains. This is not just a story about one company. It is a story about Europe's fragile position in …

Digital Sovereignty in 2026: Why Europe's Tech Future Hangs in the Balance

sandro | April 29, 2026 | digital-sovereignty, europe, open-source +1 | 0 comments | 16 views

Remember when "the cloud" meant someone else's computer halfway across the world? In 2026, that's no longer just a technical curiosity. It's a geopolitical reality. European institutions, businesses, and citizens are waking up to a uncomfortable truth: their data, their infrastructure, and increasingly their digital identities are hosted on servers …

Linux vs Windows in 2026: Should Europe Bet on Open Source for Digital Sovereignty?

sandro | April 19, 2026 | digital-sovereignty, linux, microsoft +4 | 0 comments | 10 views

The tech world is watching a quiet revolution unfold. As geopolitical tensions reshape global supply chains, a fundamental question is echoing through government halls across Europe: Should we continue building our digital infrastructure on proprietary American software? The answer, for a growing number of policymakers and tech leaders, is pointing …