With 15 firms clubbing together to launch the Trusted Tech Alliance at the Munich Security Conference, there are some notable absences and some easy targets. The membership lacks any real influence in end-devices, and also plenty of gaps in the supply chain of chips. China has been islanded, which is no real surprise, and where there are regional patterns, the list of just 15 companies means that there are major markets that are quite underrepresented. The membership is as follows. On the mobile networks side of things, we have Ericsson (Swedish) and Nokia (Finnish). In a related regional slant, defense and aerospace group Saab is a member, and from slightly further south, German enterprise software giant SAP is another member.…