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Exactly my thoughts lately… Having access to technology and enough funding, I wonder how fast anyone could spin-up "emergency" manufacturing of DDR5 RAM.

GPUs would be nice too.

X-FAB

Seems to have been originally German and still has the headquarter in Germany.

Mind you, a major reason for why Saxony is full of Nazis and all educated people leave is because after the reunification all of the industry and related infrastructure was torn down with promises of being replaced, which then never happened. Most political parties have promised to do so and it barely happened.

What did happen was that the German solar panel industry made its home over there. And it flourished and did very well, employing tens of thousands of workers – until the conservative government (following "advice" from their coal buddies) not only axed subsidies but outright banned new installations at a time when the industry was running almost entirely on domestic sales. This instantly killed the entire industry, caused a wave of unemployment, gave Chinese manufacturers an inroad that ensures the German solar industry will never bounce back, and evaporated tax income that could've been used to pay for better infrastructure to attract more companies. And, of course, it didn't endear the people over there to the major parties.

Getting tech companies to open factories or fabs in East Germany is something we've been trying to do for quite some time now. From the companies' perspective there's plenty of space in convenient locations and educated workers are easy to find in the area when there's actual jobs for them. From the country's perspective, reindustrializing the region gives us (besides tax income) a chance of snapping it out of the sense of doom and abandonment that makes it such an especially fertile ground for far-right influence. And this time the fabs won't compete with coal or automotive so the conservatives won't crony them out of existence.

It's not even the first new fab near Dresden; ESMC (a joint venture between TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP) is currently building one intended to make 12-16 nm wafers. Not the most prestigious nodes but the kind of stuff that's used in bulk by various industries.

One of those is not like the others. There's no future for nuclear energy. It's an outdated, expensive, fossile fuel just like coal and gas and Germany is doing well in phasing it out!

• Nuclear is the most expensive energy form
• It's only green if you ignore several key factors like water usage for cooling, dirty mining operations and long transport routes
• Its a maintenance nightmare especially compared to distributed power production like solar and wind
• Nuclear fuel recycling is as big a lie as plastics recycling
• Fusion remains a pipe dream even after almost 100 years of continuous research and funding

Nuclear wins in one metric though: Space efficiency per kwh! Although it's debatable how important that really is when we can use solar panels to provide shaded parking and place wind turbines on the open sea where there's plenty of space...

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In some parts of Dresden the SPD, Left and Green party each had more votes than AfD. There are urban areas with a high percentage of AfD, but Dresden also has villages.

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Good job, Europe!