I get the impression this is more subsidizing domestic development
than a decision made for the overall "best" CPU.
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sipearl-raises-e90m-for-rhea...
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sipearl-raises-e90m-for-rhea...
In any case, SiPearl seems to be the one designing the actual chip, they are French.
In general, I think ARM just was famously started in the UK and so they’ll always be associated with the country in some intangible way.
It is sort of funny that we label companies like this, really they are all multi-national entities. Especially in the case of a company like ARM—they license out the designs to be (sometimes quite significantly!) customized by engineers in other countries, and I’m sure they integrate lots of feedback from those partners. Then those designs are often actually fabricated in a third country!
Which is good, the world is best when we all need each other.
What a weird metric for determining the nationality of a company. Intel are publicly traded: are they stateless?
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.