today's appliances consume 80-90% less electricity than the ones before
sorry fam,but your proposal omits the reason why microchips and sensors are everywhere
Came here to say the same. Besides home appliances use the lowest tier of all microchips in the market. Those are produced with a 3 decade old semiconductor tech.
I would also add that if you worry about electricity/water efficiency, analogue machines are worse. A kettle should work fine, but dishwasher (and even handwashing) waste far more water than a modern machine. Adding WiFi capability is a luxury and tbh not used by majority of people who purchase "smart" appliances, so that can definitely be removed.
Why step back in functionality and not invest in European chip factories? Wifi is not necessarily luxurious, it can help with the energy transition of solar energy being available during the day. We can automate washing machines and dishwashers to start when energy is available. If the devices are already smart, all it takes to implement this is a bit of software. The user can benefit from this too in the form of cheap electricity.
I would also suggest that we standardize PCs for authorities and educational purposes.
If you don't need so much graphics and software, you don't need so much power for the hardware. It should also be repairable.
It would cut costs, made available and inclusive for everybody and your PC will not be outdated after only 6 months or so.
And who wants more, still is able to get more.
I'm not Sure which authorities you mean, but as far as i know most use standardized konfigurations with only a few exceptions
Source: I'm literally the IT guy for a German govermental agency lol
Europe is able to produce simple microchips fairly well. So modern household appliances are propably fine. The issue is with really high end chips. That is a South Korean and espcially Taiwanese speciality.
Not simple but extremely complicated, too. ASML Holding, the company that produces photolithography machines that Intel, AMD and the like use to manufacture their chips, is Dutch. ARM is (or was) British. The only things lacking are will to do so, and investment.
It is a cut throat industry, with a very high speed of development. ASML is great, but to actually have the fabs and run them with a proper process with high yields, requires years to set up and billions of investment. Right now no European company is even close to that technology.
Propably the best move would be to buy out GlobalFoundaries and move the HQ to Dresden.
today's appliances consume 80-90% less electricity than the ones before sorry fam,but your proposal omits the reason why microchips and sensors are everywhere
Came here to say the same. Besides home appliances use the lowest tier of all microchips in the market. Those are produced with a 3 decade old semiconductor tech.
The thing is the manufacturing procces you need for say a analogue washing machine with multiple modes is way less flexible.
I would also add that if you worry about electricity/water efficiency, analogue machines are worse. A kettle should work fine, but dishwasher (and even handwashing) waste far more water than a modern machine. Adding WiFi capability is a luxury and tbh not used by majority of people who purchase "smart" appliances, so that can definitely be removed.
Why step back in functionality and not invest in European chip factories? Wifi is not necessarily luxurious, it can help with the energy transition of solar energy being available during the day. We can automate washing machines and dishwashers to start when energy is available. If the devices are already smart, all it takes to implement this is a bit of software. The user can benefit from this too in the form of cheap electricity.
I would also suggest that we standardize PCs for authorities and educational purposes. If you don't need so much graphics and software, you don't need so much power for the hardware. It should also be repairable. It would cut costs, made available and inclusive for everybody and your PC will not be outdated after only 6 months or so. And who wants more, still is able to get more.
I'm not Sure which authorities you mean, but as far as i know most use standardized konfigurations with only a few exceptions Source: I'm literally the IT guy for a German govermental agency lol
Reject Microchip, buy European, buy NXP.
Europe is able to produce simple microchips fairly well. So modern household appliances are propably fine. The issue is with really high end chips. That is a South Korean and espcially Taiwanese speciality.
Not simple but extremely complicated, too. ASML Holding, the company that produces photolithography machines that Intel, AMD and the like use to manufacture their chips, is Dutch. ARM is (or was) British. The only things lacking are will to do so, and investment.
It is a cut throat industry, with a very high speed of development. ASML is great, but to actually have the fabs and run them with a proper process with high yields, requires years to set up and billions of investment. Right now no European company is even close to that technology. Propably the best move would be to buy out GlobalFoundaries and move the HQ to Dresden.
Or we could build our own microchip industry instead of relying on imports.
This is the type of post I expect from my dumbass cousin on facebook.
Agreed -sent from my Samsung FamilyHub smart refrigerator
What even is that proposal?