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I am concerned by all chips and software made by giant corporations. None of them are trustable, and any one of them will sell me out for a buck.

We must constantly fight to have open source and audited chips and software made in commodity fashion.

You might be interested in the Baochip

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/our-campai...

Probably the most open chip on the market, and sits between a pi and a pico

Funnily enough named after ‘dabao’ or takeaout in Chinese

For what its worth, Espressif chips are open source, but yes, I wouldn't run national security or government devices on these.

Edit: I take it back on OS comment, they are not OS but some components of the SDK are:

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/23-24/open-source-esp32-wifi-mac/

> Espressif chips are open source

No they're not? Anyway I assume GP was asking due to procurement concerns, not security.

Corrected my comment, thank you. I mean, if productizing with them, global trade dynamics are certainly a supply chain risk factor, however, security concerns would be the primary reason such chips would be restricted from import.

No, not really