They aren't buying computers from china. The company that did design the electronics (GE) decided to have this little outfit manufacture the PCBs for them (I mean, we're talking a production run in the low thousands so far -- this is NOT a big project). And the little outfit got bought by a bigger PCB company in China a few years back.
The risk to the supply chain is zero -- anyone can make printed circuit boards. The intelligence risk is limited to the ability to see how chips are wired together, with some ability to guess what ICs are in use by clues in the pinouts.
They aren't buying computers from china. The company that did design the electronics (GE) decided to have this little outfit manufacture the PCBs for them (I mean, we're talking a production run in the low thousands so far -- this is NOT a big project). And the little outfit got bought by a bigger PCB company in China a few years back.
The risk to the supply chain is zero -- anyone can make printed circuit boards. The intelligence risk is limited to the ability to see how chips are wired together, with some ability to guess what ICs are in use by clues in the pinouts.