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I buy my chips directly from China when I can. The fact is, if I buy it from a distributor here, it comes from the same place but costs a stupid amount more. I'm talking about opamps that are 80 cents from China but 30 dollars on digikey.
The US has a greedy middle man issue. I think bringing up home grown production is good for security reasons but I know someone's buddy is going to get all the profit and we won't actually have competitive prices.
Making a prototype of something is bloody expensive already, even when dealing directly with China.
For most hobby projects I just try to stay within the jlcpcb smt assembly parts library these days. For some reason it has actually gotten harder to get parts locally over the years as a consumer.
That has actually lowered the bar for small prototypes/projects enough that I’m using it for some company projects (PCB design isn’t something we normally do but it can be very useful at times).