I trust anything made by European companies, NXP, Philips, ST, Siemens etc., anything from Japan, South Korea, and most of the Taiwanese and Chinese companies.
Unfortunately, with some rare exception, they're not allowed to make x86-compatible chips, because the U.S. has worked long and hard to forbid the ISA, and everything used so far to implement it, from being standardised and thus kept under an unbelievable weight of patents.
Hopefully the build-up of more European fabs, and realisation that the EU has to make its own chips, will eventually remedy some of this.
What a bizarre pile of mystical euroism. NXP/Phillips sued a university to quash research about the garbage security of their contactless smartcard implementations. I'd rank NXP/Phillips way down at the bottom of the stack with state-owned Chinese semi firms.
The semi industry is really cutthroat. Outside of US giants, Intel, Nvidia, Quallcomm, and recently AMD, who cream the highest margins as their products are basically irreplaceable, the rest of the semi companies (including most EU ones) are just competing for cost (barring the current shortage where they could amp their prices too).
I disagree, an important difference is this: The U.S. has been proven definitely guilty of all accusations of espionage, sabotage, backdoors etc., while there have never been any clear proof presented for the Chinese counterparts -- only accusations, and overwhelmingly from the very country that has committed all the wrongs itself.
Take whatever side you want, but at least keep to the truth.
Unfortunately, with some rare exception, they're not allowed to make x86-compatible chips, because the U.S. has worked long and hard to forbid the ISA, and everything used so far to implement it, from being standardised and thus kept under an unbelievable weight of patents.
Hopefully the build-up of more European fabs, and realisation that the EU has to make its own chips, will eventually remedy some of this.