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Could someone actually vote with their wallet here and buy an American made — not assembled — phone? (I'm under the impression that the best case is that the pa
by deathanatos 7y ago
Could someone actually vote with their wallet here and buy an American made — not assembled — phone? (I'm under the impression that the best case is that the parts are fabricated in China and assembled in the US, e.g., Apple phones.)
- onepointsixC 7y agoYou have it backward, the parts themselves are usually created in Fab's outside of China while they are assembled (most labor-intensive process) in China. The whole article is about how Huawei is extremely dependent on components outside of China but has shifted from mostly US chips to EU, Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean Chips.
- monocasa 7y agoThe article seems to say that they're mainly shifting to HiSilicon, their in house chip design wing.