[tyteen4a03]

This is perfect for me, who want to avoid Chinese-branded devices as much as possible.

[alt227]

Right, but do you know what radio chips they are using inside?

I would guess they are chinese...

[kllrnohj]

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

[alt227]

Most of those chips are made in TSMC or samsung foundries, the majority of which are currently in China or South Asia.

[gmanley]

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).

[cap11235]

Realtek windows drivers literally have taiwnese written text. They are as American as Lego

[alt227]

I really dont see what your comment means in response to the current thread?

[tw04]

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.

[jamiek88]

None of them are in china. They are in Taiwan and South Korea.

[kllrnohj]

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.

[SigmundA]

Looks like Qualcomm X62

[kenmacd]

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.