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do sourcing chips from china have some risks these days?


I'd guess the main risk is that these are fairly small companies with shaky financials that may go under.


For hobbyist I'd say risk here is near zero - comparatively at least. These are going to get wiped and don't have an obvious persistent attack vector and likely deployed behind a NAT. There are a bunch of much softer targets in the average home that don't (IoTs, routers, software etc).

Unless using commercially or you're someone special I don't think it's worth worrying


They're so inexpensive that perhaps you could just purchase a lifetime supply right out the gate? :P


LCSC seems pretty decent. Dave from EEVBlog tested some cheap regulators from there and they performed in spec. Not a huge sample size but still.


Everything is from China.


Most chips (and these probably included?) are actually from Taiwan.

I know that AVR, PIC, microcontrollers directly ship out of Taiwan for instance.


Well not the chips or the microcontroller IP, but maybe the packaged product.


I read today that 8% of US good consumption is from China.




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