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PoliticsPolitico EUFiled 32 h ago

Europe needs Nvidia. It’ll take more than a spy scandal to change that.

Open the sourceReported by Politico EU, politico.eu, 9 November 2026, by Pieter Haeck

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was reportedly caught up in a Chinese espionage operation, yet Europe has no homegrown alternative to the U.S. chipmaker. The continent’s AI ambitions remain dependent on Nvidia’s hardware, and the spy scandal is unlikely to alter that. The episode matters because it highlights Europe’s lack of a competitive domestic chip champion. Watch whether Brussels accelerates support for local semiconductor capacity or continues to rely on Nvidia.

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