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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 26 2019, @02:05PM   Printer-friendly
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U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed with Pentagon support will soon move to Switzerland after several of the group’s foreign members raised concerns about potential U.S. trade curbs.

The nonprofit RISC-V Foundation (pronounced risk-five) wants to ensure that universities, governments and companies outside the United States can help develop its open-source technology, its Chief Executive Calista Redmond said in an interview with Reuters.

She said the foundation’s global collaboration has faced no restrictions to date but members are “concerned about possible geopolitical disruption.”

“From around the world, we’ve heard that ‘If the incorporation was not in the U.S., we would be a lot more comfortable’,” she said. Redmond said the foundation’s board of directors approved the move unanimously but declined to disclose which members prompted it.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday November 26 2019, @02:40PM (5 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday November 26 2019, @02:40PM (#924916) Journal

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/riscv_foundation_moving_from_usa_to_switzerland_because_of_geopolitical_landscape/ [theregister.co.uk]

    Platinum Members of the RISC-V Foundation include Alibaba, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Western Digital, NXP and Google. Google is using RISC-V in its Titan Root of Trust (RoT) chip. Other members include Huawei, IBM, MediaTek, Nokia, Red Hat, Raspberry Pi, Sony and STMicroelectronics; the full list is here [riscv.org].

    I see some members who would prefer Switzerland.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:57PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:57PM (#924957)

    Who wouldn't?

    As mentioned elsewhere so much of the news become so much more coherent when you understand the implications of this [wikipedia.org]. The entire world today is driven by economic power. Our relationships, our corporate appeal, even our military might all comes down to little more than our economic might. But we've now hit an inflection point. China not only already has a 30% larger economy than the US, but is increasingly that lead dramatically year by year. This year China had slower than expected growth (owing in large part to the trade wars) of 6%. US growth was higher than expected at 2%. If you don't intuit how big that is consider that that means 40% per decade. Actually due to compounding gains, it's more like 50%.

    Each year China is becoming a larger and larger part of the entire world's economy. The US, by contrast, is left engaging in financial voodoo (such as quantitative easing) just to maintain our much more modest growth rates. To say nothing of more nuanced issues like the fate of the already limping petrodollar in a world where there's an increasingly strong push for moving away from fossil fuels. What we're seeing is what we will continue to see. Countries and companies are going to increasingly step away from the US in pursuit of a "global" market and the US trying to reverse this through a mixture of hard and soft power. But it's futile. You're looking at a nation of 1.4 billion vs a nation with 330 million. As other factors start to become less severely different, you just can't overcome a difference of a billion more population.

    And one giant monkey wrench in all of this is India. India with it's 1.4 billion people is also projected to begin surpassing the US economy within the next decade or so. Whatever India's decision - to remain neutral or aligned with Chinese or American interests will end up radically restructuring of the world power balance - all within the next 10 years! Such a wildly interesting time to be alive. The birth of the internet, the birth of a permanent entry to space, a mostly organic (as opposed to war/etc) shifting of world power, potential automation, and so much more - all within a single human lifetime!

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:04PM (#924961)

      There is one more: World War III. The khazar jew rats have been working on it for quite some time. If it happens, we might not be here. Send them to the bottom of the sea, or the surface of the Sun and then we can have peace.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by fustakrakich on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:44PM (2 children)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:44PM (#925012) Journal

      you just can't overcome a difference of a billion more population.

      Yes they can [pri.org].

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      • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:59PM (1 child)

        by shortscreen (2252) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:59PM (#925048) Journal

        Indeed. US foreign policy is already heavily influenced by some old farts who can't let go of their 20th century grudges. Just imagine how much butthurt there will amongst the elite when their empire gets taken away from them (ie. the ones that weren't pragmatic enough to switch teams).

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:22PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:22PM (#925059)

          It'll be Cuba all over again