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Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas

Posted by timothy on from the texas-visitor's-guide-free-on-request dept.

Lindan9 writes "In a 9 billion dollar investment, Apple's A5 chips will now be produced in Austin, TX, in a new Samsung factory that is apparently 'the largest-ever foreign investment in Texas.'" According to the article, the factory's been churning out chips since the beginning of this month.

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  1. Cheap labor by Animats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Texas just provides the cheap labor. They don't have the technology.

    1. Re:Cheap labor by JonWan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Austin is part of Texas. It's where we keep all of the Democrats.

  2. Re:Asia goes up! by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 25 employees of the new automated plant will appreciate that fact.

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  3. I for one welcome... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our new Korean overlords.

    1. Re:I for one welcome... by rohan972 · · Score: 4, Funny

      In Korea, only old people are overlords.

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  4. Re:Asia goes up! by should_be_linear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wall Street: "$9b here? Are you fcking nuts?".
    Samsung: "We believe in american workforce!"
    Wall Street: "OK, so you ARE crazy... what the hell is wrong with China"
    Samsung: "No way, they wouldn't follow even basic environmental and working conditions. We are getting out of there"
    Wall Street: "NOOOOOOO!"

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  5. Re:I live in Texas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Meanwhile some where in China "They took our jerbssssss"

  6. Re:Asia goes up! by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    And from the inevitable bootleg Chinese dub with bad English subtitling:

    Wall Street: "$9 thousand million dolars?!?".

    Samsung: "We make believe American workforce is believe!"

    Wall Street: "Your brain works no good anymore. China is glorious and wonderful!"

    Samsung: "No left, they wouldn't lead to good empirical working conditions. We are leaving timely now."

    Wall Street: "DO NOT WANT"

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  7. Re:Texas is still a..... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    third world country.... They still execute the mentally ill there, and have you seen the nutjobs that come from there? Just look at GW Bush and Rick Perry...

    I thought you said they executed the mentally ill.

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  8. Wait until Apple makes an LCD TV... by tlambert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every friggin LCD TV manufactured since the dawn of LCD TVs look and feel the same. If it weren't for the glowing 'Sony' emblem on mine,

    Wait until Apple makes an LCD TV... it will be prettier, more expensive, and have an Apple logo on it which won't glow except to let you know that it's off. It will also have a single sheet of laser cut something or other somewhere on it, and probably laser pin holes so you can't see the LEDs unless they're on.

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