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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:53PM (#925043)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:40PM (#925103)

    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].

    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*

    Check the dates. I'm sure that was just yet another big, fat, hairy lie on Trump's part.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:11AM (#925264)

      I'm going to assume you have a limited command of the English language. I can help!

      Open [dictionary.com] [ oh-puh n ]
      verb (used with object)
      to set in action, begin, start, or commence (sometimes followed by up)
      to open a campaign.

      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".