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The bulk of the parts are not coming from China. Maybe some very commodity assembly and back end steps. But the vast majority of the manufacturing value add hap
by xadhominemx 4y ago
The bulk of the parts are not coming from China. Maybe some very commodity assembly and back end steps. But the vast majority of the manufacturing value add happens in Taiwan (semiconductors) and Korea (display).
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoI imagined the storage and RAM also come from Korea. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the battery comes from China.
- zapdrive 4y agoLast time I checked, storage and RAM are semiconductors.
- xadhominemx 4y agoMemory is of course manufactured in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and China (at Korean owned factories). But you get the overall point
- evgen 4y agoBattery and radios (wifi and LTE/5G) are produced in China from what I recall.
- xadhominemx 4y agoThe radios are not produced in China
- sudosysgen 4y agoiPhone displays are also made in China by BOE. They were also intending to use YMTC for NAND but didn't because of political pressure.
- xadhominemx 4y agoBOE gets a token allocation, that is true.
- philliphaydon 4y agoSome* are made by BOE. Not enough for Apple to care. 100% of iPhone 14 Pro/Max are made by Samsung.