Plenty of Taiwanese based companies for PC parts (ASRock, ASUS, BenQ); though I don't know if any of them have CPUs, specifically, and the GPUs are still based on specs from nVidia or AMD so IDK how much better that is. There's also Chinese based parts, though I have to imagine that's not much better than US ones, for the same reasons you want to avoid American parts.
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Thank you this has given me some very useful leads.
It's good to check out the options, also consider writing to your representatives to buy non-american hardware brands.
This is a challenge when there seems to be a dearth of products fit the criteria!
However it seems like sipearl is working on exactly what I’m looking for — an arm processor made in Europe — and I’m eagerly looking forward to it.
For what it’s worth I’m active in my local riding and don’t plan to stop pestering them about these sorts of things.
For what it’s worth I’m active in my local riding and don’t plan to stop pestering them about these sorts of things.
I appreciate your activism as you're educating your representative on how to properly support our regional businesses.
Really wish Nortel was still around for networking. No idea for good business grade switches and access points.
I’ve been an avid Unifi fan for years, but for my “prosumer” uses I’ll probably be moving to TP-Link unless I find a better alternative for network gear.
I don’t love supporting China for a variety of serious reasons, but for me… not threatening to conquer my country gives them a big step up from America despite those reasons.
You could check out Mikrotik. Latvian company. It takes a bit of work to understand though from my experience. Their routers are very good though.
Appreciate the tip thanks
TP-link was put on a cautionary list in Canada, I think, for instance.
Please double-check that it's your best option. I just bought a home plug bridge and I'd buy another, but it's not for the tasty part of my home setup so I lie to myself about any risks.
The risk of relying on devices which perform auto-update functionality or could hide backdoors are absolutely a legitimate security vulnerability.
Companies must comply with legal orders given to them by their government. So if the government of, say, China or America demands that their firms enable surveillance or sabotage either against individuals or widespread; those companies will comply.
So yes, any advice of caution is prudent. I both get that and agree with it.
However, right now I consider the US to be a more serious threat. They are intentionally causing harm to my country in order to bully us into capitulation to steal our land and resources. So while the threats of sabotage or surveillance are true from both counties, my priority is to boycott the US more stringently.
I am absolutely open to better options and if you have any suggestions I’m up for it. And regardless I would do substantial research before buying any new gear.
Open source Risc-V CPUs are starting to become a thing, but probably a few years before they're widespread.
This looks very promising thanks for sharing it.
You're welcome
worth mentioning that “promising” is about all it is right now… you absolutely don’t want a RISC-V based machine yet: they’re incredibly slow, and incredibly expensive… they’re development machines; not for end users
Yes your perspective on this matches the results of my research as well.
It’s a very interesting project to watch and hopefully upstart companies around the world will see this as an opportunity to serve their domestic markets.
But right now today it’s extraordinarily expensive for limited performance. I can live with limited performance but those price are way too high to consider for anything not directly related to development of the platform itself.
the most interesting case right now i think is specialised chips… i think i read that western digital were thinking of building drive controllers using them, because they’d be cheap and very flexible… i can see lots of things like that: little tiny things that suddenly get a whole lot more interesting
Non-American CPUs are very rare. NXP and Infineon are European chip makers, but the only device with an NXP SoC that I'm aware of right now would be the Purism Librem 5. An almost 7 year old, absolutely overpriced, nearly unusable, insecure Linux phone.
We're a little more lucky when it comes to storage. Goodram is flash memory manufacturer from Poland. Intenso is based in Germany. G.Skill and ADATA are Taiwanese. Toshiba and Kioxia are Japanese, SK Hynix and Samsung are South Korean.
(TrekStor is also German, but I'm not sure if they make the chips themselves)
Most mainboard manufacturers, such as MSI, AsRock, ASUS, Gigabyte and Biostar are Taiwanese.
Then there's also the software to think about. You can certainly use Linux instead of Windows but even then, lots of people will also end up using Google, Steam or Discord.
I’ve used Linux since 1996, so that doesn’t bother me in the slightest
I should have mentioned that but I’m a bit self-conscious about being the “I use arch btw” people. Even though I do use Arch, btw.
rockchip based SBCs are powerful enough for general-purpose use. Some of the companies behind them are american like PINE64 but most arent. There's a promising board called the orion o6 coming out of china but its still really young in its development and support lifecycle and its hard to source.