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It's not a case of some chips though. To be sure, you would have to do it to every chip you used - and even then it'd be quite possible you've missed something.

by 46Bit 14y ago

It's not a case of some chips though. To be sure, you would have to do it to every chip you used - and even then it'd be quite possible you've missed something. Realistically this is about power rather than espionage. In a similar way to how the booming US displaced Britain of a lot of the major international cables around the turn of the 1900s, so China will want to try it.

ximeng 14y ago
Not sure what you mean about displacing Britain, but sounds interesting, can you elaborate? I would have thought you could structure a deal to maintain power where necessary so that China can't come in and cut off your bandwidth, but maybe not. Regarding the chips, I wouldn't have thought you need to be 100% sure, 99.9% might be good enough if you can get there by random sampling of significantly less chips than 100%. In any case, that cost analysis is what's required and that's the case e.g. Huawei are making here. There are reasons to be careful in dealings with the Chinese, but it might be better for both sides if some level of transparency can be maintained.