Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., on the left, and Emmanuel Macron, French president of the Vivatech 2025 conference in Paris, France, Wednesday June 11, 2025.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has made an argument for his country to manufacture the most advanced fleas in the world, with the aim of positioning itself as a critical technological center in Europe.
The comments arise as European companies and countries re -evaluate their dependence on foreign technology companies for critical technologies and infrastructure.
The manufacture of Tamias in particular appeared as a subject after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was making a panel alongside the CEO of Macron and Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, said on Wednesday that the first graphic processing unit (GPU) of the company had been manufactured in France by the microelectronics SGS Thomson, now known as Stmicroelectronics.
However, Stmicroélectronics is currently not at the forefront of the manufacture of semiconductors. Most of the tokens he makes concern industries like the automobile, which do not require the most peak semiconductors.
Macron nevertheless put its ambition so that France can make semiconductors in the range of 2 nanometers at 10 nanometers.
“If we want to consolidate our industry, we must now get more and more chips on the right scale,” said Macron on Wednesday.
The smaller the number of nanometers, the more the transistors can be integrated into a chip, leading to a more powerful semiconductor. Apple’s latest iPhone chips, for example, are based on 3 nanometric technologies.
Very few companies can make fleas at this level and on a large scale, with the supplier of Samsung and Nvidia Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) leading the pack.
If France wants to produce these cutting -edge chips, it will probably need TSMC or Samsung to build a locally factory – something that has happened in the United States TSMC has now hired billions of dollars to build more state factories.
Macron presented an agreement between Thales, Radiall and Foxconn in Taiwan, which explores the implementation of an assembly and a semiconductor test installation in France.
“I want to convince them to make the manufacture in France,” said Macron during Vivatech – one of the largest technological events in France – the same day, Huang de Nvidia announced a multitude of transactions to build more artificial artificial intelligence infrastructures in Europe.
A key partnership announced by Huang is between Nvidia and the French Mistral IA models to build a so-called “Cloud Ai”.
France has sought to develop its IA and Macron infrastructure in February said that the country’s AI sector would receive 109 billion euros (125.6 billion dollars) in private investments in the coming years. Macron presented the Nvidia and Mistral agreement as an extension of the construction of the IA of France.
“We deepen them [investments] And we accelerate. And what Mistral AI and Nvidia announced this morning is also a game changer, “Macron told CNBC on Wednesday.
