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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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I’m looking to avoid American-made goods and American companies as much as possible and this relatively challenging when it comes to computers.

From my research so far it seems very difficult to find computer hardware that isn’t using American company microprocessors. CPUs available to non-industrial uses tend to be AMD, Intel, or recently some Qualcomm — all US companies. Even Raspberry Pi uses a Broadcom chip, and the other up-and-coming ARM chips I’ve researched seem to be American as well.

I’d appreciate any insights in this area, either companies with existing products or up and coming companies to watch. If I had a blind spot in my research and I’m missing something obvious please tell me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Non-American CPUs are very rare. NXP and Infineon are European chip makers, but the only device with an NXP SoC that I'm aware of right now would be the Purism Librem 5. An almost 7 year old, absolutely overpriced, nearly unusable, insecure Linux phone.

We're a little more lucky when it comes to storage. Goodram is flash memory manufacturer from Poland. Intenso is based in Germany. G.Skill and ADATA are Taiwanese. Toshiba and Kioxia are Japanese, SK Hynix and Samsung are South Korean.
(TrekStor is also German, but I'm not sure if they make the chips themselves)

Most mainboard manufacturers, such as MSI, AsRock, ASUS, Gigabyte and Biostar are Taiwanese.