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do sourcing chips from china have some risks these days?
by synergy20 4y ago
do sourcing chips from china have some risks these days?
- kken 4y agoI'd guess the main risk is that these are fairly small companies with shaky financials that may go under.
- nullc 4y agoThey're so inexpensive that perhaps you could just purchase a lifetime supply right out the gate? :P
- throwaway742 4y agoEverything is from China.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoWell not the chips or the microcontroller IP, but maybe the packaged product.
- astrange 4y agoI read today that 8% of US good consumption is from China.
- dragontamer 4y agoMost chips (and these probably included?) are actually from Taiwan. I know that AVR, PIC, microcontrollers directly ship out of Taiwan for instance.
- Havoc 4y agoFor hobbyist I'd say risk here is near zero - comparatively at least. These are going to get wiped and don't have an obvious persistent attack vector and likely deployed behind a NAT. There are a bunch of much softer targets in the average home that don't (IoTs, routers, software etc). Unless using commercially or you're someone special I don't think it's worth worrying
- mastax 4y agoLCSC seems pretty decent. Dave from EEVBlog tested some cheap regulators from there and they performed in spec. Not a huge sample size but still.