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2007-02-01-gotronic

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"Tapes and reels of resistors and capacitors, ICs of every type, inductors, relays, pogo pin test points, voltmeters, trays of memories, all crammed into tiny six-by-three foot booths with a storekeeper poking away at a laptop, sometimes playing Go, sometimes counting parts."

bunnie reports from SEG/Shenzhen. [ Ø G • ]

"This is no strip tease. This is the orgy of consumer and industrial electronic purchasing [...]"

"Knowledge is cheap. Components are cheap. The knowledege in those books are the Real Deal, and the parts down the street are all there. And within an hours drive north is probably 200 factories that can take any electronics idea and pump them out by the literal boatload…and these are no backward factories."