Comment by clippyplz

Comment by clippyplz 2 days ago

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Very much possible. Talking more generally about microelectronics - You can imagine the DoD is very interested in making sure they're not putting 'bad' chips in their military hardware, whether 'bad' means backdoored or merely counterfeit.

Manufacturing chips in the US means the DoD can investigate the acutal fabs and put cleared personnel on the manufacturing line to make sure nothing untoward is going on. Another strategy is to investigate the chip after it's been manufactured somewhere else and prove that it's the same chip you designed, but that's quite difficult.

If you're interested you can read up on the Trusted & Assured Microelectronics (T&AM) program.