[sdiy] Dealing with China

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We have a CM in Taiwan that my company uses and they are very good. They provide engineering and ID as well. They have come to visit and are great people so I try to use them as much as possible. As a country, Taiwan is much better to it's populace, so there's some feel good points there.

Loosely related, here is a look at another side of USA/China relations that are troublesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55892jT06aI

GB


------ Original Message ------
From "Mike Bryant" <mbryant at futurehorizons.com<mailto:mbryant at futurehorizons.com>>
To "SDIY" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org<mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>>
Date 12/14/2023 5:13:04 AM
Subject [sdiy] Dealing with China

I've got all my established contacts and find them excellent, but I still see comments here obviously not trusting Chinese suppliers and paying over the odds instead to suppliers who probably get their supplies from China anyway.

Even if you don't buy the book, it's well worth watching this video just to appreciate the scale of the Shenzhen market and how it totally dwarfs anything in the West.  There's also huge warehouses backing up these operations which she doesn't show, and of course all the PCB manufacturers and assemblers.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen

In over 20 years of buying thousands of packages from China, I've had one faulty set of ICs due to bad packaging, and two counterfeits.  All three refunded.



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