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lioeters • today at 9:22 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

While ARM Holdings is based in Cambridge, England, it is majority owned by SoftBank Group which is a Japanese investment conglomerate.

What's important in the context of a European "sovereign computing" initiative is the licensing of the instruction set architecture. Like x86, ARM is still proprietary, while RISC-V is a free and open standard.


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pepperoni_pizza • today at 9:28 AM

SoftBank is technically hedquartered in Japan but it is mostly owned by Saudis.

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