"dark" mentor? seriously? I think I saw that film in college. All SoCs manufacturers that are Chinese companies in China are subject by Chinese Law to operate

"dark" mentor? seriously? I think I saw that film in college. All SoCs manufacturers that are Chinese companies in China are subject by Chinese Law to operate with immediate CCP oversight. This is an immutable and undenied fact. Period. End of Story. There are CCP officers running around the hallways of Allwinner/RockChip and even fabless producers like Espressif, as well as small companies that use Western chips (from Intel, etc.) with their own BIOS and peddle online. You have exactly two options: (a) Take the blue pill ..connection interrupted Seriously, do not live in a false reality where you expect the government of any country hundreds with millions of people to feed will not fight tooth and nail in defense of their way system of doing that --using the same techniques of competing states and the latest technical capabilities at their disposal. By the way, can I interest you in a lovely cell phone, my friend? No? How about a 100Mbps battery powered mobile satellite dish the size of a dinner plate? NO?! Maybe just a plain 'ol receive-only pager --I hear they can be a blast!