| ▲ | carlosjobim 3 hours ago |
| Like last time, I ask again: Which are the European made computers? |
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| ▲ | DrBazza 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Which are the US made computers? Start by excluding all the ones with Korean LCD panels, and Taiwanese motherboards, and Chinese parts. If you mean assembled then there are lots of very small European companies that make custom build PCs. Economies of scale in the US, a single language, and cheap transport, mean that the US companies grow very big internally, very easily. And then go international without much effort. The same is not true in Europe, so there's not a huge Dell, HP, or IBM equivalent. In 2026, the only country on the entire planet that can likely make their own computer with 100% their parts and labour, and is actively trying, is China. |
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| ▲ | einr 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The same is not true in Europe, so there's not a huge Dell, HP, or IBM equivalent. In the 90s and up until the early 00s we used to have quite a few pretty serious contenders, but they are all dead now: ICL, Siemens-Nixdorf, Tulip, Bull, Olivetti, etc. |
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| ▲ | sph 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No European made computers today doesn't preclude the possibility that there will be one tomorrow. RISC-V is the way out, and there are a number of European initiatives (though nothing serious just yet, I admit) As a European dev, because I like RISC-V and because of the geopolitical situation I wouldn't bet on x86 in the long term. |
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| ▲ | rixed 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've been not betting on x86 in the long term since the PowerPC was announced ;) |
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| ▲ | GJim 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Being independent of Chinese manufacturing is a tougher challenge for anybody. Though at least the Chinese are predictable, unlike dealing with the USA. |
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| ▲ | kergonath 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s all about risk management. No solution is ever perfect, and that works for the US as well. Also, some partners are more reliable than others. If China becomes as volatile as the US, it would change the risk assessment and stimulate other parts of the industry. |
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| ▲ | rvnx 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm more concerned about the fact that only ASML can make machines producing advanced chips (EUV). This is a way way more concerning topic. The irony is that China might be the one fixing that dependency + bring prices down. One bomb on the Netherlands and it is over for nearly all the worldwide supply-chain, 10 or 15 years of regression. Even worse, they can remotely kill the machines for political reasons. |
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| ▲ | Snafuh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use an European made computer from Schenker (their XMG subbrand actually). Of course the components are not European made. But Dell's components are not US made either. I can also buy a Japanese or Korean (or Chinese) computer. There is no dependency on a single country. |
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| ▲ | blitzar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The goal isnt to become independent of China / Taiwan / the rest of Asia. The goal is to become independent of America. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Which are the European made computers? Recently, not so many I suppose. But many of the earliest computers were European, so surely we could get there again at one point, hardly impossible. |
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| ▲ | samus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Achieving redundancy from China is likely not possible in the near future. Meanwhile, the risk emanating from a rugpull or from deliberate sabotage by the USA is very concrete. |
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| ▲ | croes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Given that most chips use photolithography machines by ASML: nearly all of them |
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| ▲ | edg5000 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Interestingly, there are zero non-US powerful laptops.
The closest option is the Moore Threads MTT AI Book (12-core 2.65Ghz, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 14 inch). It cannot reach a modern Ryzen in performance though.
It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. I'm not from/in the US so I'm not saying that from a patriotic point of view. How hard can it be to pop a good ARM chip in a laptop and compete with HP, Apple and the likes? |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. Seemingly, the US might be able to design good computers, but it cannot make them themselves. This should make it easier for others to do the same, design the computer in country X but actually make it somewhere else, just like the US. Yet we're not seeing this at all. | |
| ▲ | samus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Which powerful computers are made in the USA? Design and assembly don't count, as these are the least robust to replication attempts. Apart from that, the manufacturing is all in East Asia; Intel is the exception, not the normal! | |
| ▲ | palata 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. Lenovo is Chinese, right? Xiaomi, Samsung... can you really not name one non-US company making computers? | | |
| ▲ | soco 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm typing on Acer right now. And there's Asus, MSI, Fujitsu... |
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| ▲ | cromka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > "Like last time" I am perplexed by people who use condescending phrases like this. You think we track what you said before? |
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| ▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What are the American-made computers? The Apple macbook assembled in China with Korean displays and Taiwanese chips? |
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| ▲ | carlosjobim 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I haven't mentioned America or any other continent. It is the Europeans who are shouting about sovereignty right now. Americans for their part would probably be very happy to use made-in-Europe software on their computers whenever applicable. | | |
| ▲ | samus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | At the same time, TFA is about software, not about the computers themselves. | |
| ▲ | einr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I haven't mentioned America or any other continent. It is the Europeans who are shouting about sovereignty right now. Well, no one has mentioned computer hardware until you did. Surely you understand how "all the motherboards are made in Taiwan" is less of an immediate risk to sovereignty than "all of our business and personal data is stored on American servers and subject to US law" It would be nice if Europe could produce its own computers, but right now no one can except China, so what is your point? That limited sovereignty efforts undertaken in the realm of reality are futile and that enables you to get some cheap shots in for whatever reason? | | |
| ▲ | carlosjobim 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Computing is the software and the hardware. So you're right, I feel that it is futile. Well, you can use the old hardware which you've already got if you get cut off from foreign suppliers. But the same is true for software. It's even more true for software. If the French government and other Europeans were serious about reducing or eliminating dependency on American cloud services, they should switch to older versions of MS Office and MS Windows be done with it. No need to retrain your workers, and a realistic and speedy way to implement it. | | |
| ▲ | microtonal an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | they should switch to older versions of MS Office and MS Windows be done with it That does not make any sense at all. These are full of known security vulnerabilities. | |
| ▲ | samus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There is one very serious issue with software: it needs updates for security issues that are uncovered. And it might be built requiring access to MS cloud services to work. To get rid of these problems is basically equivalent to adopting open source products. | |
| ▲ | einr an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Unfortunately that’s an unacceptable security risk, especially for a government. |
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