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by tooltalk 7y ago
Well, the key thing is to get everyone to use the US plant, but nobody wants to use potential competitor's foundry, who recently announced that they plan to spend $100+B to challenge other logic chip makers. A few minuscule defense co
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by tooltalk 7y ago
According to Samsung's own account, their first fabrication plant in Austin, Texas opened in 1997, followed by major upgrades/expansion in 2007 and 2017.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Apple's A chips were, once upon a time, manufactured by Samsung in Austin, Texas until 14nm in 2015. Tim Apple switched to TSMC in Taiwan shortly after defending Apple's outsourcing practices in a rare national TV appearance, bol
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by tooltalk 7y ago
maybe they would if the state of Missouri starts bombing Iran.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
>> Samsung is a 30% shareholder of Xtal. Samsung's 30% share amounts to less than $8M versus Samsung's share in ASML which amounted to about $500+M and $277M in additional funding, or $777+M in total. XTAL had fewer than a
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ASML rejects Samsung's involvement in IP theft case with rival , APRIL 17, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-spying-samsu... .
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by tooltalk 7y ago
There appears to be some kind of smear campaign waged against Samsung by its foundry competitor TSMC at national level. Not sure about this insecurity or fake rivalry by Taiwanese tech companies who see Samsung as a major threat ( https:&#
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by tooltalk 7y ago
http://en.thelec.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=350
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by tooltalk 7y ago
I believe NYPD cops make similar amounts, but that's without overtime. They often get x 1.5 for OT and they can easiyl double their annual salary to $150k - $189k after 4-5 years in service.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
$400k sounds a bit high, though it's not unheard of. In NYC, there are thousands of public employees at MTA and NYPD collecting over $150K annually just a few years in service and I'm not talking managerial or chief positions. Som
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Wrong. Apple also sued Samsung for Android core features, but no infringement was found. Microsoft was a tiny iceberg and exemplified what could have happened to Android. Samsung was reportedly paying close to $1B for a couple of years, un
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by tooltalk 7y ago
I'm guessing that they evaluated the patents before Motorola got preliminary injunction against Apple. IIRC, fewer than 2-3% of all patents actually survive and are upheld in patent trials, so they are not probably wrong when they say
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Sure, they got a good deal. Moto's wireless patents were second only (or maybe third) to Qualcomm's in term of quality and they generated a steady stream of licensing revenues before and after the acquisition. Unlike WeWork&#x27
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by tooltalk 7y ago
the Motorola acquisition wasn't a disaster. It's just that many didn't understand Google' intent with Motorola. Google tried to take a stake in Nortel's patent bid, as the wireless patent war started heating up in
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There's a character limit for submission titles.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Named Board Chairman of Tsinghua University(macrumors.com)
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from one man commie dictatorship that poses one political and economical threat to a one party commie dictatorship that poses no such risk. This is no brainer.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
I'm guessing probably none today. The smartphone business is heavily commodified at this point and there is no "basic components" that be made exclusively only in China. As I noted earlier in my comment, there are over 200
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Apple buys iPhones wholesale from CMs (contract manufacturer) like Foxconn, Pegatron, etc for only $250-$350 and sells them for around $799-$1000 retail. The cost of labor (ie, final assembly; aka, manufacturing) in iPhone BOM, often born
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Why is not realistic? Just look at Samsung's Vietnam operation -- there are now over 200 suppliers who relocated and set up shops in Vietnam. There are also now at least dozens of domestic suppliers and contractors supplying parts f
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Samsung is already gone. Samsung had foresight and is well diversified. The company started packing up and moving to Vietnam at their peak in China back in 2013. Most of their smartphones now come from Vietnam (and Samsung's Vietnam o
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Thailand No. It's mostly Vietnam -- and India possibly in near future. Sure, the wage is much lower in Vietnam, but the downside was that the country was known for low-cost textile and toys production until Samsung came along. The
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Apple iPhone, yes, they are made in China; most Samsung phones were made in Vietnam by 2017 and on. So no.
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Apple didn't buy anything from Xerox -- and there was no licensing between the two companies. Xerox filed a lawsuit in fact in the late 1980's to prevent Apple scaring potential customers with Apple's copyright claims (eg, Ap
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Whatever Imperial Japan built in Korea, they weren't certainly smartphone factories. The Imperial Japan didn't really build a lot of industrial base in Korea and what little they built were in the North and destroyed during the
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by tooltalk 7y ago
It would have been fascinating to study Japan in the 80's, but now really sure they are still "self-sufficient." Japan's auto industry is still strong, but their future largely depends on impending trade deal wi
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There was no such "exchange" -- Xerox's investment in Apple did not depend on Apple's visit to Xerox, which had been open to public demonstration throughout.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
> Also when we say "make" I assume we mean "assembles". Well, it's a bit more than that. While Samsung imports many parts and "assembles" all final products in Vietnam, there are also 200 suppliers and
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by tooltalk 7y ago
How do you feel about Apple's theft of Xerox's innovation in the late 70's or Obama's "pardoning" of Apple IP theft (ie, Samsung's USITC victory), that would have banned iPhone imports from China in 2012?
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No. Samsung grew during Japan's trade row with the US in the 80's. The trade hostility between the two nations gave opportunity for Samsung to jump in the DRAM business, just in time for their 64K and 256K breakthroughs ahead of

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