>On top of that, there is no ISA or reference CPU that isn't US-based.
ARM HQ is in Cambridge & owned by Japan (Softbank group)
ARM HQ is in Cambridge & owned by Japan (Softbank group)
Ideally there'd be a player like Fujitsu (also an ARM licensee), they can do an entire laptop where only the manufacturing and software is not in-house (they don't have the capacity to do that AFAIK). If you then slap some coreboot (or U-Boot) and linux on it, you'd be pretty close to a much less US-attached laptop.