Norway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are:

- Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like nRF24L01, Basically responsible for the Blue Tooth Low Energy standard.

- AVR: Well known 8-Bit microprocessors. Sold to Atmel

- Energy Micro: Low Power ARM Microcontrollers. Sold to Silicon Labs.

- Phalanx: GPU Cores. Sold to ARM.