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Chris, I thought your philosophy on end product reliability versus (perceived) quality of components was pretty spot on. A manufacturer puts its reputation on the line by using truly dubious components. It’s generally not in a manufacturer’s interest to make stuff that fails.
Dave’s reasoning that you can’t trust Chinese parts because they are Chinese is kind of BS. Sure, there are truly no-name brands that have little reputation to protect, and there is a history of that. But, it’s also not that hard to figure out who’s a big name and who isn’t, even if *you’ve* never heard of them. We use NCE MOSFETs and Aishi caps in our designs and, seriously, the NCE parts are *easily* in line with top Western/Japanese brands, if not better, and I mean that. Same for Aishi. They test very well, and have no reason to believe quality is not up there. Millions of units shipped.
If your application is truly not cost sensitive, then sure, do whatever makes you feel good. But, truth is, most products *are* cost sensitive, and can you stay competitive paying 2x for all of your parts?
I agree that they should not have published and included advertising with misleading claims, even if my above ramblings suggest that it doesn’t matter.
Interestingly, XMOS also has their own C compiler with some proprietary extensions for parallelism. (The language is influenced by occam, the compiler itself based on clang and LLVM.) They are deprecating it because, I suspect, having to learn a new language is not really a selling point but – actually, it’s quite a nifty language which avoids many of the parallelism foot guns associated with C, whilst interoperating well with it.