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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: 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.