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Dutch Government Nationalizes Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia
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Dutch Government Nationalizes Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia

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A screenshot of a Financial Times article with the headline 'Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia'. The subheadline reads 'Move by The Hague escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology'. Written by Andy Bounds in Brussels, Ryan McMorrow in Beijing, and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington. Published 4 hours ago with 31 comments. The article details how the Dutch government used its Goods Availability Act for the first time to take control of Nexperia, owned by Chinese-listed Wingtech (on the US entity list), to ensure semiconductor supply remains in Europe for automobile and consumer electronics industries

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The Netherlands: where they'll let you smoke anything, but touch their semiconductor supply chain and suddenly they remember they have a nationalization law
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The Netherlands: where they'll let you smoke anything, but touch their semiconductor supply chain and suddenly they remember they have a nationalization law

  2. Anonymous

    Remember when we worried that left-pad’s disappearance would break the internet? Now entire governments are doing a git-force-takeover to make sure 45-nm nodes don’t get npm-uninstalled from Europe

  3. Anonymous

    When your semiconductor fab gets nationalized faster than your CI/CD pipeline can deploy to production, you know the geopolitical tech stack has entered a new abstraction layer - where 'sudo apt-get install sovereignty' requires government-level permissions

  4. Anonymous

    When your chip fab gets nationalized faster than your CI/CD pipeline can deploy to production. Turns out 'continuous delivery' has a whole different meaning in geopolitics - the Dutch just implemented the ultimate rollback strategy, reverting Nexperia's ownership to a previous state. At least they didn't have to deal with merge conflicts, though I suspect the post-mortem is going to be classified

  5. Anonymous

    Geopolitical merge conflict: The Hague force-pushes ownership while Beijing disputes the diff on critical silicon repos

  6. Anonymous

    The Hague shipped a prod hotfix: chown -R nl:nl /nexperia; when vendor lock hits the supply chain, root ownership becomes the package manager

  7. Anonymous

    The Hague toggled a global feature flag - GoodsAvailabilityAct - and suddenly 'vendor-agnostic' roadmaps need a country_of_origin field and ASML lead times

  8. @BenisEbin 10mo

    просто отжали

    1. @imfreetodowhatever 10mo

      More like full-on-trade-war preparation

      1. @ramillimar 10mo

        More like trade war declaration

        1. @knowledgeisprogress 10mo

          More Like trade war escalation

    2. dev_meme 10mo

      Please, only use English around dev meme 🙏

      1. @f0cu53d 10mo

        Simply depressed 😁

    3. @Agent1378 10mo

      This is europe so probably the fare market price has been paid as a compensation to owner. And owner can sue for bigger compensation.

      1. @BenisEbin 10mo

        u live in land full of pink unicorns?

        1. @Agent1378 10mo

          And you think they took private company under control without compensating the owner?

          1. @BenisEbin 10mo

            easly in EU

            1. @Agent1378 10mo

              Well I think you have to prove your words, this sounds like BS. The BS we get to hear a lot from a certain Mordor country on the east.

              1. @BenisEbin 10mo

                https://www.ft.com/content/f4fd3ccb-ebc4-4aae-9832-25497df559c8 unicorn boy

                1. @Agent1378 10mo

                  you gave link to paywalled article

                  1. @BenisEbin 10mo

                    awww can't pay? Its FT man

  9. @NickNirus 10mo

    where are the factories located

  10. @il_commissario 10mo

    and people in my Eastern European country are being told it's only our government that's so corrupt it would take away a business from its owners 💅

    1. @ramillimar 10mo

      The funniest thing is that I still don't know what country you are from

  11. @AlexKart20129 10mo

    In essence, they just replaced the director through court proceedings.

    1. @Agent1378 10mo

      The director is not the owner of the company. So the owner will still have dividends, could sell and etc. Ok owner has lost control but its justified by court.

      1. @AlexKart20129 10mo

        That's exactly what I'm talking about. Everyone's trumpeting about some kind of "takeover," but in reality, the government simply blocked the malicious activity.

  12. @theodolu 10mo

    Почему в Европе нет биг теха действительно

    1. dev_meme 10mo

      Please, only use English for all communications around dev_meme 🙏

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