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by irutirw222 1558 days ago
This is a good point. Probably most people are not aware of the country of origin of most of the tech products (resp forna given product, how many important, modular subparts come from Chinese companies).

It would be highly interesting if there would be a website where you could type in the name of a product (e.g. sime Cisco) router and it would give you a detailed decomposition of where and by whom is parts where made. Something like (highly simplified) : - CPU design: Company X - CPU manufacturing: Company - RAM design and manufacturing: Company Z - Overall remaining logic: Cisco

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Many US companies publish lists of suppliers. These examples do not show individual components, but may shine some light on things:

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supp...

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/supply-chain/cisco-s...