The EU's AI Boom Could Undermine its Own Chip Strategy

The EU's AI infrastructure push—requiring hundreds of thousands of advanced GPUs over the next five years—will deepen reliance on Nvidia and US chip designers, undermining its Chips Act 2.0 goal of semiconductor sovereignty. Even if Europe expands domestic manufacturing, the fragmented global supply chain (design in the US, advanced fabrication in Taiwan and South Korea) limits how much autonomy the bloc can achieve.

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