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They "manufacture the phones from the motherboards to the packaging" ... perhaps the case, motherboard, packaging, but still importing the components, in partic
by incompatible 7y ago
They "manufacture the phones from the motherboards to the packaging" ... perhaps the case, motherboard, packaging, but still importing the components, in particular the system-on-a-chip and display? In that case, "made entirely" wouldn't be accurate.
- holstvoogd 7y agoAre there even any producers of low-level components & lcd displays outside China, Taiwan, Korea etc?
- ekianjo 7y agoJapan, unless it was not implied by your "etc" :)
- derekp7 7y agoWikipedia has a list of chip foundry plants, along with process size and production capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... In addition to the US, there are and several throughout Europe, Russia, and former Soviet countries. Plus many countries throughout Asia.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoGreat list. Also a reminder of why they call it Silicon Valley after all... Maybe Rwanda will push towards researching making their own chipset. ARM is kind of a spec and not some specific processor is how I have understood it. You take the spec and design your own processor from it.
- pnako 7y ago>You take the spec You have to pay license fees :) but yeah that's the idea. SPARC and MIPS are a bit more open actually.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI missed that bit, and I didn't think about SPARC / MIPS to be fair. Wasn't there another one recently opened up by IBM? Isn't RISC or RISCV? I only focused on ARM because then you can usually take advantage of Android. I do wish there were competing phone OS' though that were open source as well.
- yellowapple 7y agoDon't forget RISC-V and POWER.
- thatcat 7y agoLol, I don't see any production in Silicon Valley. Most CA production listed is around LA area.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoCalled it Silicon Valley then, fair enough!
- walrus01 7y agothat list seems to be entirely missing the upstate new york chip fab, which has been around since 2003 or so. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-semiconductor-firm-upstate-ny-chip.html https://phys.org/news/2019-04-semiconductor-firm-upstate-ny-...
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoAlso missing the ON Semi fab in Rochester that made Kodak's image sensors.
- Iv 7y agoThere's a 32 nm fab in France (ST Microelectronics) doing a lot of components. I am not sure about the displays though.