European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative

Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by lioeters on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:22AM (#50349791)

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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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by pepperoni_pizza on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:28AM (#50349837)

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

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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by Imustaskforhelp on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:11AM (#50350093)

This statement seems to be factually untrue. Mashayoshi Son owns 32-33% of Softbank and then the investors are like the Japanese Master Trust bank etc. Saudi Arabia is not even in top 10 of the investors list.

Saudi Arabia did recently invest 45 billion dollars in the vision fund which is an investment fund managed by Softbank but they haven't really invested within Softbank itself so not it is not mostly owned by Saudis from what the data can tell.

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