Supply Chains
Since Covid and the Ukrainian war supply chain disruptions, people are concerned about the source of their video components.
The Polish military are particularly concerned about not using Chinese components. They complain that even the capacitors and resistors are made in China. While Lattice is an American company, and Canon, maker of the Raspberry Pi image sensor, is a Japanese company, all of those parts are made in mainland China or in Taiwan. I even used two Chinese AI’s, DeepSeek and Kimi K2 to proofread (but not edit) this article. So it is hard to not be dependent on tech from China.
China is perfectly happy selling parts to both the Russian and the Western militaries. The more those two groups squander their resources fighting over Ukraine, the better it is for the Chinese.
Western countries which want to avoid Chinese suppliers for military applications, may want to use the British Raspberry Pi Zero, the German GateMate, the Taiwanese HiMax cameras, the European STM32N6, the Korean Samsung cameras and the Japanese Sony and Canon cameras. However, one must always verify the actual manufacturing and assembly location of these components.
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