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Chip Security
Currently, we are begining to hear about the risk of using products made with Chinese chips because of the Chinese government's involvement in the manufacturing process and their desire to be able to...
Don't take every word on Twitter from some government exponents as facts. Ask your vendors about the influence of western governments on businesses doing encryption, certificate management, the continuous scare that some might communicate and your secret services have no ways to decrypt.
Netgear does design and build systems with engineering forces in San Jose, California, and Taipei, Taiwan. on SoC solutions from Broadcom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Corporation owned by CA Technologies, before headquartered in Singapore, now in the US), Qualcomm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm), Intel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel), some niche players like MediaTek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek) and no, most of the production is handled by manufacturing business like TSMC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC) which does chip manufacturing (along with Samsung) chips for a biig fruits company from Cupertino, Ca among almost all others (including the fabless chip designers from mainland China like HiSilicon [that's Huawei's foot in this market] or Allwinner btw.). There are many chip fabs located in south east Asia - most are not located in mainland China. And even if the Chinese government won't agree - Taiwan is much more the 51th state of the US than it's China.
Face it: The times where TI designed and manufactured TTL logic chips as used to fly the Apollo program to the moon are history.
Regards from Switzerland!
Thanks for the response.
FYI, I do not take anything said on social media as factual, and actually I don't use social media at all.
With that said, the facts are that we must always be vigilant against foreign powers as well as the Five Eyes. And I have found it hard to get the facts from some companies. For the most part, there has been no concern beyond making money, so employees don't care to learn the truth and they can't pass it on; either because of ignorance or ideology. Of course, we would buy no Chinese-made computer or networking products as a matter of safety; I don't care how inexpensive they are, nor their application.
You may be interested to know that I did get a response from Netgear as follows:
"I have just received more information by the senior staff stating out chip-sets are not made in chine, so i can confirm to you GS108E Chip are not manufactured."
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