Posted on 07/05/2021 6:34:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Good hit piece. True or not, it serves to undermine confidence in Chinese products. This at a time of heightened tensions between Taiwan and Red China.
Hey Democrats are you OK with the Chinese filling the World with more crap that ends up in landfills
RE: True or not, it serves to undermine confidence in Chinese products.
The purpose of honest journalism is to present THE TRUTH, not to create hit pieces.
So, who I blame when my Kia stops working?
Not to worry. China can’t fake those kinds of chips, at least not yet. Intel, AMD, TSMC (which makes most of the chips that are put into automotive applications) are beyond the manufacturing ability of the Chinese. More importantly, the validation tools these chipmakers give to their customers virtually guarantees ‘fake’ chips can’t be used.
Where these chips might find their way into US products is in appliances and other lower-ticket products that don’t use sophisticated chips.
Epoch Times is the best media source for news of China.
It can be biased maybe 1 time in ten, but that’s still good.
And, they are the best.
If China wants better press coverage they’d have to open up instead of cracking down..
Won’t it be grand when these substandard chips find their way into the million automobiles sitting there waiting for chips?
See post #7.
I saw his response after I posted. That was informative.
But dishwashers, refrigerators, ovens, clothes washers, driers...sounds like a disaster looming!
Even basic components are causing problems now. The condenser on our fan/compressor starter on the AC went out Saturday. All the repair shops are slammed and can’t get simple condensers! I finally found a repair guy who had ONE left on his truck and he got it going again Saturday night. I ordered a spare on Amazon if I need to repair it again.
Neighbors are building a brick wall. It’s slowed way down due to shortage of cement (!) and labor.
Buy American.
“…ordered a spare on Amazon if I need to repair it again….”
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Amazon? Amazon is THE major source of knockoffs and defective components.
I’ve been burned once with a fake hard drive. There were lots of warnings the merchant was selling bogus stuff and I ignored them.
Hope that isn’t the case w this cap.
The “engineered” or pre-planned chip shortage.
Back in 1990, Intel had me do the validation on a 286 clone made by an unlicensed Chinese company.
It was a complete mask copy and still had the Intel tm on the die.
True or not, it serves to undermine confidence in Chinese products.
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Its true, wake up. Its not a hit piece. Fake stuff is the number one money maker in China, after investing in apartments and apartment buildings. The Chinese are obsessed with making money, so much so that it has become a facet of their culture. Scams are everywhere, and it is impossible to know who’s scamming you, usually until its too late. Crimes like that, pickpocketing, kidnapping are not noticed, even in broad daylight and the police do nothing.
So, who I blame when my Kia stops working?
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Look in the mirror - that’s the guy that bought the cheap knock off.
The major chip makers are Chinese - Taiwan Chinese TSMC - not, as you say, Mainland CCP China.
I wouldn't be so sure. As we've seen with "the Big Guy" who gets his 10% cut of everything it seems, China does a damn' good job of buying people off or compromising them to guarantee that they (China) gets what it wants.
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