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they use slightly different steels for their spokes (18/10 for Pillar, 18/8 for Sapim)...friends with Pillar spokes (mostly in Hunt wheels) have suffered from broken spokes.
I expect differences in process make more difference than the difference in alloy composition.
Given how popular Pillar spokes are with Chinese wheel shops, I'd expect a lot of reports of failure if they were actually particularly weak.
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Personally I'd go for Sapim over Pillar. I believe that they use slightly different steels for their spokes (18/10 for Pillar, 18/8 for Sapim). I've used Sapim spokes a lot and never had any issues with them, whereas friends with Pillar spokes (mostly in Hunt wheels) have suffered from broken spokes. Of course there are a lot of other factors which might have led to this, but I'll be sticking to Sapim for my builds (except for those with DT Swiss Alpine IIIs).