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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:56PM (3 children)
That's generally what opinion means, yes, so there is no need to put it in quotes. It's what at least 75% (maybe closer to 90%) of what all 24-hour TV "news" sources do, and what many other sources like Breitbart and OANN do. (See, I put news in quotes there because they are devilishly good at making you think you are watching news when you are watching opinions about the news). But for newspapers, if the piece says "OPINION" across the top of it, as this one does.... well you can pretty well assume that there are going to be conclusions drawn beyond the facts themselves. Those might be debatable. See how that works?
Your factual analysis of the situation is pretty lacking. Here's the facts being presented:
- Trump visited Apple and told several falsehoods both there and on Twitter ("Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.")
- Neither the CEO nor the company corrected the President's lies, but instead kept silent about them.
- Deprikasa was relieved of aluminum tarriff sanctions, in a move the administration claims was an error.
- The JEDI contract went to Microsoft instead of Amazon, which was a complete surprise to most of the industry with an opinion about it.
The opinion being drawn from these examples is that Trump engages in crony capitalism, and the litmus test for these is personal support of Donald Trump. Seems right to me.
That this is plausible is very simple. Trump is pathologically narcissistic. That is an opinion but rooted in enough factual occurrences that I'm not going to belabor proving it to you - if you can't see it already you won't anyway. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Donald Trump supports them who support him personally and those who do not will be punished in any way that Trump is able to. He has proven again, and again, and again that he only supports those who support him, where his Oath of Office requires him to uphold the principles of the Constitution which are to support all people in America, those who like him and those who hate him both. He fails to support members of his own party who do not show the deference to which he feels is his due. It would be more surprising if he weren't a crony capitalist. But I digress.
Then you conclude by arguing the messenger instead of the message.
So you have no command of what opinion is. You do not understand the facts. You have incorrect concepts about the subject. And you try to shoot the messenger.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:53PM (2 children)
The article is even more fake than you're assuming. Trump was referencing the new Austin campus (with around 15,000 new employees) that Apple announced immediately after his Tweet:
Apple Announcement (per local news) [kxan.com]
Trump Tweet [twitter.com].
Check the dates. I'm sure that was just yet another 'woopsie' on Krugman's part.
The New York Times continues to fall to impressive new lows.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:40PM (1 child)
Except, Trump's tweet said he "opened" a new manufacturing plant. According to the article *you* linked, Apple has just begin construction and will not have any actual Apple business activities until 2022.
So. Trump *lied* about the plant he was standing inside (which was *opened* in 2013), as he couldn't be talking about "opening" a facility that won't finish construction for two years or so.
So I suggest that *you*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:11AM
I'm going to assume you have a limited command of the English language. I can help!
Krugman, however, has no such excuse. Nor do the New York Times editors. It's simply more literally fake news from the NYT guarded by a classification as "opinion".