Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas
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Lindan9 writes "In a 9 billion dollar investment, Apple's A5 chips will now be produced in Austin, TX, in a new Samsung factory that is apparently 'the largest-ever foreign investment in Texas.'" According to the article, the factory's been churning out chips since the beginning of this month.
Samsung... (Score:5, Interesting)
The same company they're suing for imitating (int their eyes) the same product they're going to make in the new factory? Strange bedfellows indeed.
Re:Asia goes up! (Score:5, Interesting)
1,100 high-tech employees on the processor side of the fab, and more than that on the flash memory side. A $3.6 billion construction project. Yes, I'd say they will appreciate it.
Re:Samsung... (Score:3, Interesting)
Ah, come on already. Enough with the "all the phones have similar design" argument. Put side by side iPhone 3G(S), iPhone 4, any HTC smartphone, any Sony-Ericsson smartphone, Nokia smartphone and Samsung Galaxy (I and 2) then see try to match similar looking phones. Somehow only Samsung managed to make their phone look painfully like the iPhone.
Re:Well (Score:2, Interesting)
"You will know we are in a serious depression when manufacturing really comes back to the US."
You know when we don't price our labor out of the market we get more investment.
Bridgestone, Continental, MTU, BMW all invest in the US because it makes sense as their labor prices rise and ours become affordable.
Re:Asia goes up! (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's all hope for hopelessness, for that is the only path of hope.
Re:Multinational (Score:5, Interesting)