Norway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are:<p>- Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like nRF24L01, Basically responsible for the Blue Tooth Low Energy standard.<p>- AVR: Well known 8-Bit microprocessors. Sold to Atmel<p>- Energy Micro: Low Power ARM Microcontrollers. Sold to Silicon Labs.<p>- Phalanx: GPU Cores. Sold to ARM.
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