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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:35AM (#18138933)
It's not the chips that are the problem. Most of Intel's fabs are in the US, and their assembly sites are in a number of countries.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by cwingrav on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:29PM (#18141861)
I think people should know how stark the differences for assembly in the US are vs outside of it. Something that costs, at low prototype volumes mind you, $20 in China for a dozen boards or so, would run hundreds of dollars in the US and still take the same amount of time. As it scales up, the ratio might improve, but these aren't like 10%-20% differences.
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