Apple Strikes Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom for Components Made in the US (apple.com) 19
Apple on Tuesday announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom, a leading U.S. technology and advanced manufacturing company. From a report: Through this collaboration, Broadcom will develop 5G radio frequency components -- including FBAR filters -- and cutting-edge wireless connectivity components. The FBAR filters will be designed and built in several key American manufacturing and technology hubs, including Fort Collins, Colorado, where Broadcom has a major facility.
"We're thrilled to make commitments that harness the ingenuity, creativity, and innovative spirit of American manufacturing," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "All of Apple's products depend on technology engineered and built here in the United States, and we'll continue to deepen our investments in the U.S. economy because we have an unshakable belief in America's future."
Apple already helps support more than 1,100 jobs in Broadcom's Fort Collins FBAR filter manufacturing facility, and the partnership will enable Broadcom to continue to invest in critical automation projects and upskilling with technicians and engineers. Across the country, Apple supports more than 2.7 million jobs through direct employment, developer jobs in the thriving iOS app economy, and spending with more than 9,000 U.S. suppliers and manufacturers of all sizes in all 50 states across dozens of sectors.
"We're thrilled to make commitments that harness the ingenuity, creativity, and innovative spirit of American manufacturing," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "All of Apple's products depend on technology engineered and built here in the United States, and we'll continue to deepen our investments in the U.S. economy because we have an unshakable belief in America's future."
Apple already helps support more than 1,100 jobs in Broadcom's Fort Collins FBAR filter manufacturing facility, and the partnership will enable Broadcom to continue to invest in critical automation projects and upskilling with technicians and engineers. Across the country, Apple supports more than 2.7 million jobs through direct employment, developer jobs in the thriving iOS app economy, and spending with more than 9,000 U.S. suppliers and manufacturers of all sizes in all 50 states across dozens of sectors.
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"What's the smallest/cheapest component we can manufacture here for a good press release? The one that gets the best government subvention..."
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My immediate thought. Great minds meme alike.
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"What's the smallest/cheapest component we can manufacture here for a good press release? The one that gets the best government subvention..."
Actually, this kind of supports the general assumption that Apple is about to start building their own cellular chipset. Given that TSMC is building a giant manufacturing plant in Arizona that could potentially be used for manufacturing Apple's SoCs (and OLED displays, ostensibly), this looks an awful lot like Apple is hedging against any future tariffs that might be imposed on imports from China.
I think there's a decent chance that U.S. versions of iPhone could be built in the U.S. within single-digit yea
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Exactly my thoughts, especially given the recent rumors that Apple is looking to bring microLED production in-house as well once they're ready to adopt it for their products. Between the factories in India and the US, buying out Intel's cellular business unit, the switch to Apple Silicon a few years ago, and the microLED rumors of the last few weeks, Apple is making all the right moves to secure production of key components against influence from either state or corporate actors, while at the same time tryi
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"Apple is hedging against any future tariffs that might be imposed on imports from China."
Or worse. Xi is closely examining what is happening in UA. Like Heisenberg looking into his catbox, we are seeing what "strategic ambiguity" looks like when everybody, er, looks at it and reality comes into focus.
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"Apple is hedging against any future tariffs that might be imposed on imports from China."
Or worse. Xi is closely examining what is happening in UA. Like Heisenberg looking into his catbox, we are seeing what "strategic ambiguity" looks like when everybody, er, looks at it and reality comes into focus.
Indeed, that is one of the two scenarios that could plausibly trigger massive tariffs on imports from China. The other scenario would be if Donald Trump or someone equally anti-China wins the next presidential election. The Taiwan invasion scenario is also why they (meaning the U.S. government) are pushing for TSMC to build manufacturing capacity in the U.S., so that it won't all be right under the nose of China's military. Apple is *absolutely* hedging against that sort of scenario, and anyone who isn't
Subvention? (Score:1)
"Subvention"? Are you Swedish or German? Subsidy is more typical English.
Convenient (Score:1)
Now that all the cheap Asian labor has dried up...
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I am curious how soon the near sighted US policies will destroy its economy. It happened to all other empires throughout the history but humans never learn from history.
Bad headline: "Strikes" is ambiguous (Score:3)
I initially read this as a negative, like "Apple Drops Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom", as opposed to the actual meaning, "Apple Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom". That word [wordnik.com] has many definitions.
The summary was good though. At least I didn't have to read the article.
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I thought maybe Tim decided to smite the deal documents.
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*btw - only poop drops.
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You know that the word 'drop' has also changed meaning over the years....
"Dropped" has always been a brain dead, stupid, idiotic replacement for "released". The latter implies something with energy that is trying to escape captivity, while the former implies some incompetent dimwit fumbled something along the way to a public showing.
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You can only release what you can hold. If you are talking about something too big to hold then the term drop is more applicable then release. When they say a news story "drops" it implies that it is so big and important that it can not be held.
That being said, the term "drop" is a really poor choice for the original article. It should have been "announce".
"Upskilling"? (Score:2)