> we'll be either supporting local workers or friendly nations
Are there any friendly nations left?
What about buying some largest-in-the-world microcontrollers from Russia?
While I like the joke, Russia is actually making its own original microcontrollers, for example see K1921VG015 (RISC-V 32/50 MHz/1M flash/256K SRAM/square 100-pin package). The $6 price tag seems a little bit expensive to me but well the developers want to eat something too. There are also ARM-based microcontrollers (much more expensive), and of course (even more expensive) famous Elbrus CPUs with unique VLIW architecture.
Elbrus CPUs were produced by TSMC though. So they're dead since 2022.
Cannot they be produced in China once China develops the technology? As far as I remember, they don't use the latest process node anyway.
I'm no hardware guy so no clue how easy it's to move from 28nm TSMC process to some other 28nm process that China supposedly might soon have according to the news.
But honestly I doubt China would just enable Russia develop and produce own CPUs. When it's comes to chinese everything they never localized production in Russia: heavy machinery, cars, electronics, etc. They are main benefactors of Russia not having own anything.
so called macrocontrollers, indestructible if Ivan on that day didnt start drinking early morning