France, Feb. 1 -- China's DeepSeek AI chatbot may have rattled US tech giants, but in Europe some industry players see a potential advantage.

As US-based company Nvidia- the world's leading manufacturer of AI chips - reels from a record-breaking stock drop, European semiconductor firms and AI developers are weighing what the disruption could mean for them.

Philippe Notton, CEO of SiPearl, a European company developing processors for supercomputers, told RFI that DeepSeek's ability to develop AI with fewer resources could be a turning point.

"That's bad news for Nvidia in terms of future sales, because if you can develop some competitive solution with fewer Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), it means that Nvidia will sell fewer chips," h...