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> Obviously they can be made outside of China From what I understand, this is not so obvious. There is a ton of parts that only Chinese manufacturer produce a
by hrktb 7y ago
> Obviously they can be made outside of China
From what I understand, this is not so obvious.
There is a ton of parts that only Chinese manufacturer produce at scale, and I wonder if some of them can even be produced elsewhere at any reasonable price in a reasonable time frame (if it takes 10 years to rebuild a factory elsewhere, or if it's only produceable at CERN, I'd conclude it's not an option)
Do we have any single example of a high scale computing product produced without any Chinese part at this point ?
- baybal2 7y agoWell, Japanese domestic market stuff? Panasonic and Toshiba take pride in sourcing almost all, but ram and chipset from Japan for their notebooks. I once had an opportunity to take apart an RZ series, and to my amusement, even capacitors and other passives were Japanese. I never expected Japanese electronics to still be around in 2018.
- hrktb 7y agoGood point. Other notable companies are Sony, they still have CMOS sensor factories in Japan and will try to keep most of the “secret sauce” in the country, and Samsung who also has founderies in Korea if I’m not mistaken. Even them will source some of the parts from elsewhere, hut at least they still have advanced manufaturing knowledge. I guess they would be faster to move if they needed to cut ties with China.