[sdiy] Dealing with China

[jslee]

Thanks for sharing. Shall watch tonight.

I saw a snippet of an interview with Tim Cook recently where he said Apple couldn't build its products in the USA *for any price* because the large-scale manufacturing expertise — people who know how to build & maintain factory tooling — is largely gone, whereas in China it's readily available/accessible

This seems a rather difficult situation to recover from. How can you even teach it if the remaining experts are rapidly disappearing? How can you even get enough people interested in that career path when ~nobody knows anyone (locally) that does it?

John

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, at 00:13, Mike Bryant wrote:
> 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.   
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> 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.
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> https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen
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> 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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