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I don't quite understand why some are riled up for this? It's a single product line(for now a single product). It's understandable an industrial control board warrants the extra QA, manufacturing and layout quality. In their shoes I would also ask the Chinese: "Hey can you design your own layout, with it's own branding and name?"

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It’s not really an “industrial control” device. By brief inspection, it’s a BGA SoC breakout with 1.8V or 3.3V logic levels, directly from the SoC to the outside world.

An industrial device like a PLC would have galvanically isolated 24VDC digital inputs, 0-10V and 4-20mA galvanically isolated analog I/Os and galvanically isolated, short-circuit tolerant 24V high-side driver outputs, a case with a DIN mount and screw terminals.

This device is no more “industrial” than any other SoC.

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