you might be able to find american-designed (or european-designed, african-designed, antarctica-designed, etc.) chips that do something similar, but you can be pretty sure they will be made either in taiwan or in the rest of china
in a now-deleted response to this comment, you asked, 'How is it relevant in the thread I started by asking for american designed chips?'
you didn't ask for american-designed chips. you asked for non-chinese chips, but many chinese chips are american-designed (in some sense, all of them, since transistors and integrated circuits are both american inventions). literally what you said was
> Is there a non-Chinese equivalent of ESP that compares in terms of module integration re: Wifi et al? (but perhaps not cost)
i just went back to see if you'd edited your comment, but no, that's literally what you said, byte for byte
For Wifi, the only competition I'm aware of is the wireless STM32 series from ST Microelectronics: https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...
For BT, Nordic's nRF series is pretty popular. In the DIY world, I mostly know it in the form of the nice!nano, a keyboard controller.
These range from $4 to $14 for MPU + Wifi.