Paper short abstract:

The present proposition examines the CHIPS regulation to determine its effects prior to propose solutions involving European civil society and developing countries through open sources solutions.

Paper long abstract:

Without really underlining the hardware aspect, the actuality shows the use of cloud services as a geopolitical mean in warfare. Microchips are everywhere, those are central for phones, computers and of course servers, but also for mundane objects. US chips are also known to contain backdoors for espionage purposes. Basically, electronic requires chips. EU ‘s “Chip regulation” (2023/1781) attempts to address this issue by developing a real infrastructuring digital sovereignty to claim European independence from foreign monopolies coupled with political misuses. Even if this strategic choice can only be hailed, this path toward an hardware sovereignty ony creates new capitalistic actors with a limited ecosystem and limited liabilities. The present proposition examines the CHIPS regulation to determine its effects prior to propose solutions involving European civil society and developing countries through open sources solutions. Such path may avoid this notion to evolve as a sole capitalistic concept but to be linked with its real aim: entrusting citizens to have power on their national infrastructure.