I already posted where the major parts come from. You can figure out the rest by looking at the list of parts and this thread and looking at the list of silicon fabs in the world.
One difficulty is that a lot of companies like STmicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and NXP both have their own fabs and outsource their chips to foundries (TSMC in Taiwan, GlobalFoundries in New York, Signapore and Germany, Samsung in S. Korea, UMC in Taiwan, SMIC in China, etc.). Sometimes you can figure out where the chip is made by looking at the node size and type. China has pressured/induced many companies like TSMC, UMC, SK Hynix and Samsung to build at least one silicon fab in China, because they export huge amounts of their chips to China for PCB assembly, so there is a small chance that the chips were made there.
Glancing through the list, I didn’t spot any chips that are obviously made in China and most chips are made in countries with high standards of living.
One misconception is that Taiwan is the same as China. I’ve been twice to Taiwan and it is a democratic country. It has decent labor standards and a very high percentage of the population is in the middle class. Singapore has a lot of silicon fabs, and it has a high standard of living, but it isn’t democratic. India is democratic, but has poor labor standards and pays low wages.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the US and South Korea, which are democracies, actually rank very low in the world in terms of workers rights. Here is how the International Trade Union Confederation ranks workers rights, on a scale of 1 being the best and 5 being the worst:
- Netherlands: 1,
- France: 1,
- Germany 1,
- Taiwan 3,
- Singapore 3,
- Mexico 4,
- USA: 4,
- India: 5,
- China: 5,
- South Korea: 5
I can’t comment about South Korea, but I can see why the ITUC gives the USA such a low rating:
- There are no laws guaranteeing paid sick and maternity leave,
- US workers don’t get much vacation time, which usually starts at 2 weeks per year,
- Only 10.5% of American workers have a labor union to represent them and the tech industry engages in anti-union activity, so there are no unions for tech workers,
- Many workers are part-time and have no health insurance, and workers lose their health care insurance if they lose their job.
Workers may have political freedom in countries like S. Korea and the USA, but that doesn’t always translate to tangible workers rights.
People working in fabs and electronics assembly have to work around a lot of dangerous chemicals and assembly work causes a lot of repetitive motion injuries. I get the impression that the environmental and health safety standards for workers are the best in Europe and Japan, then a step lower in S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and the US, and then even worse in China, India and Vietnam (countries where there is a lot of assembly work).