From a $1 Made-in-India Calculator to a Chinese 4-bit CPU
Chip decap in Shenzhen, low-cost electronics, and what “Made in” really meansI gave the opening talk on Day 1 at Teardown 2026. The talk was not only about opening products. It was about what teardown can reveal about the real structure of hardware manufacturing: where design happens, where components come from, how supply chains are connected, and how much of the story is hidden behind a simple “Made in” label. ...