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>I thought SoftBank bought them, making them a Japanese company? What a weird metric for determining the nationality of a company. Intel are publicly traded: a
by devnullbrain 3y ago
>I thought SoftBank bought them, making them a Japanese company?
What a weird metric for determining the nationality of a company. Intel are publicly traded: are they stateless?
- bee_rider 3y agoI should have been more direct. The chip is being designed by a French company, they can license the IP from outside the EU while still building up the EU domestic chip building capabilities. They’ve just outsourced one (big) piece of the puzzle. Calling ARM a Japanese company was just to highlight the international nature of these sorts of projects.
- shard 3y agoI think typically a company having shareholders all over the world does not make people think that it is stateless. However, ownership transfer does make a difference, especially when considering how much the new parent company alters the original company's image/culture. For example, I think that Segway has pretty much lost its US company image after being purchased by Ninebot, with Ninebot products being prominently displayed on the Segway website.