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We can manufacture electronics here, though the exact details of the Apple Watch are probably not easy to accommodate. (The manufacturing engineers knew it wou
by jrockway 3y ago
We can manufacture electronics here, though the exact details of the Apple Watch are probably not easy to accommodate. (The manufacturing engineers knew it would be built in China, so they chose parts and processes that are mature there. For example, if the requirement was for all the parts to be made in the US, then it would probably use an Intel chip, since those are made in the US. It probably wouldn't get 2 days of battery life if they used one of those, however.)
- AlbertCory 3y agoActually, there's no need to be all US-only. It's only the finished article that can't be imported.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoThey may find a way around this - I believe it was only required to do two "manipulations" to have a US-created good. Some people were getting around tariffs that way. Of course, a US court in West Texas could issue the same injunction as the ITC.
- AlbertCory 3y agoas I said, domestic injunctions are much less common.
- kube-system 3y ago> if the requirement was for all the parts to be made in the US, then it would probably use an Intel chip, since those are made in the US Intel both has overseas fabs and contracts some parts to TSMC, especially for their latest processes. I'm pretty sure the dies in Meteor Lake are of Irish and Taiwanese origin, and have nothing made in the US.