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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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:42PM (4 children)
Switzerland has been forced to join the US empire, and the Swiss government will be compelled to enforce US policy against them.
At least in the US they would have had strong US constitutional protections against arbitrary and capricious acts.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:02PM
When switzerland won't house snowden, that is a pretty big sign.
When development of open protocols and cutting edge tech is afraid to operate in the united states, that is a pretty big sign.
They might be saying they are afraid of trade wars and unstability, but I think it is pretty hard to develop with the intention of making something that will not be easy to comprimise, over wires and hotel rooms completely comprimised by the people you are trying to defend against.
Now that due to epstein we know that the wiretapping is not to protect the children, it is pretty certain industrial espionage and the elimination of all privacy outside of mansions and the ministry of truth, is someones actual intention.
Like, you think epstein didn't change anything because CNN ignores it, but among thinking people in the world, it changed a lot.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:36PM (2 children)
oh, gosh, I forgot to say why I disagree.
There are no strong constitutional protections in the united states, see my journal.
USA post 2001 is GDR-lite, your rights are a potempkin village of half-truths made irrelevant by technology.
https://archive.is/6uwoN [archive.is]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:00PM
Ah, so you modded me down.
That's still more than what Switzerland will give you, once the US leans on them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:06PM
USA post 2001 is GDR-lite
Pfft! Try post 1968. No, wait, try post 1912, no, I'm sorry, try post 1860, oh man! no way! Try post 1786 [shays rebellion, in case you don't care to look it up]! Oh fuck it, try post 13 billion BC
We were doomed from the start. Everything that happens is inevitable. You recover, and do it again.