Non Chinese as in not made in China? Pretty hard I believe. As for near equivalent, I recall about the old (and now possibly hard to find) WiFiMCU modules and the W80x MCUs by Winnermicro.

http://wifimcu.com/

https://github.com/SmartArduino/WiFiMCU

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003456975478.html

There aren't a whole lot of options for wifi specifically; there's tons of choice for Bluetooth though.

For Wifi, the only competition I'm aware of is the wireless STM32 series from ST Microelectronics: https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...

For BT, Nordic's nRF series is pretty popular. In the DIY world, I mostly know it in the form of the nice!nano, a keyboard controller.

I see some microchip offerings, but am not clear on how they fit into this trade space. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/wireless-connectivi...

These range from $4 to $14 for MPU + Wifi.

no, of course not

I dont see why that's obvious.

many new chips don't even have non-chinese datasheets

You're making a probabilistic argument against the existence of an American made (or designed) equivalent to a Wifi+MCU module on a chip?

how is america in any way relevant here? we were discussing china

you might be able to find american-designed (or european-designed, african-designed, antarctica-designed, etc.) chips that do something similar, but you can be pretty sure they will be made either in taiwan or in the rest of china

in a now-deleted response to this comment, you asked, 'How is it relevant in the thread I started by asking for american designed chips?'

you didn't ask for american-designed chips. you asked for non-chinese chips, but many chinese chips are american-designed (in some sense, all of them, since transistors and integrated circuits are both american inventions). literally what you said was

> Is there a non-Chinese equivalent of ESP that compares in terms of module integration re: Wifi et al? (but perhaps not cost)

i just went back to see if you'd edited your comment, but no, that's literally what you said, byte for byte

That's very helpful.