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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. Samsung... by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The same company they're suing for imitating (int their eyes) the same product they're going to make in the new factory? Strange bedfellows indeed.

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    1. Re:Samsung... by Pi1grim · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Ah, come on already. Enough with the "all the phones have similar design" argument. Put side by side iPhone 3G(S), iPhone 4, any HTC smartphone, any Sony-Ericsson smartphone, Nokia smartphone and Samsung Galaxy (I and 2) then see try to match similar looking phones. Somehow only Samsung managed to make their phone look painfully like the iPhone.

  2. Re:Asia goes up! by samkass · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1,100 high-tech employees on the processor side of the fab, and more than that on the flash memory side. A $3.6 billion construction project. Yes, I'd say they will appreciate it.

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  3. Re:Well by couchslug · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "You will know we are in a serious depression when manufacturing really comes back to the US."

    You know when we don't price our labor out of the market we get more investment.

    Bridgestone, Continental, MTU, BMW all invest in the US because it makes sense as their labor prices rise and ours become affordable.

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  4. Re:Asia goes up! by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is the odd thing coming out of some folks now. We are supposed to embrace our newfound poverty.

    Let's all hope for hopelessness, for that is the only path of hope.

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  5. Re:Multinational by oxdas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My understanding is that Samsung uses a complex circular ownership structure with Samsung Everland at the top. This allow Lee GunHee and family to completely control Samsung even while owning only a small piece of the pie. This form of ownership is not valid for a public company in the United States, but Korea has different rules. Other companies achieve this same effect in other ways. Newscorp, for example, uses a multiclass stock structure whereby the family owns a small minority of the stock, but retain near majority voting rights.