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>American made

While it indeed has American roots and a huge amount of development is done today by American citizens, various people and companies from China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and many European countries have significant contributions as well.

>American owned design

Nope. It's "owned" by the RISC-V International Association registered in Switzerland.

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I've looked into the "why" of that, since I, too, wondered why a design that comes from the University of Berkeley (the home of BSD) lives there: international legal protection and tax reasons.

That said, because of that, you could also say it belongs to the entire world, equally, and I would be happy with that description as well; but politicians don't really understand those words, and only think in terms of tribal football.

I thought it was mostly to avoid US politics and possible tech bans export? Especially since the RISC V foundation is a non profit.

You’re correct - there’s obviously no tax benefit since nonprofits have no tax obligation. I don’t think it’s a coincidence they moved there in the midst of all the last administration’s saber rattling with China. The previous entity was HQed in the US and then merged into a Swiss entity so pretty safe to assume why.

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