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Are they just assembled in Japan from Chinese-manufactured chips? Do Intel, AMD, etc. even manufacture outside of China anymore?
by solardev 2y ago
Are they just assembled in Japan from Chinese-manufactured chips? Do Intel, AMD, etc. even manufacture outside of China anymore?
- krasin 2y agoIntel factories are around the world (US, Europe, Israel, Malaysia), but none in China. See ([1]). AMD uses TSMC (Taiwan) and GlobalFoundries (USA, Europe, Singapore [2]). So, answering your narrow question: yes, these chips are manufactured outside of China. But the answer to your wider question is more complex: supply chain is so globalized that there will always be some components or subassemblies manufactured in China in any laptop, unless it's a state-sponsored multi-year effort to not have any. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
- solardev 2y agoThank you for this info! I didn't know that, and am glad to have learned.