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i_can_has_rock t1_j25lezt wrote
BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN
nastratin OP t1_j21pjtp wrote
Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant, your phone was already one of the most complex gadgets in the world. It is the product of a delicate supply chain whose every link is forged by competing business and political interests.
That chain is starting to rattle and even break, as the global tech industry works to become less dependent on China. Earlier this month, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) held an event celebrating the expansion of its first major facility in the United States, a semiconductor plant in Phoenix, Arizona.
When the facility starts operating in early 2024, it will use the world’s most precise manufacturing tools to etch billions of microscopic circuits onto the silicon chips that provide all of the world’s computing power.
davesy69 t1_j247bmz wrote
China seduces big business with the lure of it's massive home market, cheap labour and production costs but that comes with significant downsides, such as losing intellectual property, not criticising China (particularly it's government) and having virtually no legal rights in chinese courts.
redstern t1_j22ss8b wrote
Imagine pretending this is complicated. Pay your fucking workers to manufacture instead of exploiting slave labor. Done. You're a trillion dollar company, you can afford it.
Westfakia t1_j24ho01 wrote
Indeed. No idea who downvoted you but clearly their best interests lie elsewhere. Unfortunately there is a lot of that going around.
Happy-Campaign5586 t1_j25xla8 wrote
We SHALL SEE!
dleexlff t1_j2238q6 wrote
apple doesn’t need china. we only needed china for the cheap labor… now china doesn’t hold that spot anymore, obviously. not only do we have cheap labor with india and south america, but they also have the smarts that china never had.
Fairuse t1_j23ifmo wrote
Apple needs China not for cheap labor but for the manufacturing infrastructure and scale. No many places can repurpose entire manufacturing line in under a year to pump out hundreds of millions of devices. Only other places can match manufacturing infrastructure is South Korea and some SEA countries, but they don’t have the scale to handle Apples volume needs.
science-raven t1_j2298yd wrote
128 dollars to upgrade to 1.8 my cable! Made-in-china! Apple can bcpm compot.
Stock_Complaint4723 t1_j22au0d wrote
It’s time to tell China to go fuck itself. We soon will no longer need you. As soon as we clear out the traitors who tried to sell us out. Looking at you, joe.
GMendelent t1_j22yp85 wrote
You do realize it was American companies that fled the states for cheap labor. It's the asshole ceo you want to blame. No one took American manufacturing jobs other than shareholders and ceos. They didn't want to pay you, they didn't want to pay for your pensions, they also don't care about you. So go on and bark at this politician or the next. You'll just be a classic example of how easy it is for them to move the blame, because the bulk of the population is clearly stupid.
kukendran t1_j22s1og wrote
While I agree with the global community's need to move away from China as a single point of manufacturing for a large portion of goods, I think this still needs to be handled carefully. The alternative is moving to places like India and India is looking to be headed to some sort of Hindu centric right-ish country, which isn't going to be great either. Allowing any one country to control too much (even if that is the US), is going to be detrimental to any nation not aligned with that country. Ideally manufacturing of things like semicon needs to be distributed across the globe and not centralised in any one location.