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Re:UniFi 5G by tyteen4a03 on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:25AM (#46160962)
This is perfect for me, who want to avoid Chinese-branded devices as much as possible.
Re:UniFi 5G by kenmacd on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:12PM (#46164158)
If you avoid Chinese-branded devices you should doubly avoid US-branded devices. See National Security Letters and Room 641A as a small subset of why.
Re:UniFi 5G by alt227 on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:31AM (#46161029)
Right, but do you know what radio chips they are using inside?

I would guess they are chinese...

Re:UniFi 5G by kllrnohj on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:53AM (#46162947)
Why would you guess Chinese? Broadcom, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Realtek are the typical answers for radio chips, no? None of whom are Chinese? There certainly are Chinese radio chips, such as from Espressif or Huawei, but they aren't especially popular in APs or anything
Re:UniFi 5G by alt227 on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:13AM (#46163273)
Most of those chips are made in TSMC or samsung foundries, the majority of which are currently in China or South Asia.
Re:UniFi 5G by cap11235 on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:22AM (#46163416)
Realtek windows drivers literally have taiwnese written text. They are as American as Lego
Re:UniFi 5G by alt227 on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:52AM (#46163852)
I really dont see what your comment means in response to the current thread?
Re:UniFi 5G by tw04 on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:43PM (#46170468)
So not China unless you’re being pedantic and pretending when people say they are avoiding China they doin don’t mean the mainland governed by the communist party.
Re:UniFi 5G by gmanley on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:30PM (#46164431)
The majority of their foundries are in Taiwan and South Korea which, to avoid politics, is outside what most people mean when they worry about tech made in China (they think about the PRC).
Re:UniFi 5G by jamiek88 on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:02PM (#46164865)
None of them are in china. They are in Taiwan and South Korea.
Re:UniFi 5G by kllrnohj on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:07PM (#46164945)
To be strictly accurate TSMC has exactly 2 fabs in China (Fab 10 & Fab 16). So it's not "none" in China, but very almost none.
Re:UniFi 5G by SigmundA on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:32AM (#46161042)
Looks like Qualcomm X62