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Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing company best known for its partnership with Apple, has said that it is mulling a $7 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing that could create between 30,000 and 50,000 jobs. According to The Wall Street Journal, Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou says the company is talking with the state of Pennsylvania among others about getting the land and electricity subsidies it would need to build a factory. "If U.S. state governments are willing to provide these terms, and we calculate and it is cheaper than shipping from China or Japan, then why wouldn't Sharp build a factory in the U.S.?" said Gou. The factory would build flat-panel screens under the Sharp name -- Foxconn bought Sharp around this time last year for $5.1 billion. Sharp President Tai Jeng-wu hinted in October of 2016 that U.S. manufacturing could be a possibility for Sharp, and he also indicated that Apple could begin using OLED display panels in future iPhones. Apple currently uses OLED in the Apple Watch and in the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar, but otherwise it hasn't pushed to adopt the technology as some Android phone manufacturers have.
Lol.
Keep dreaming.
This factory will be 90+% automated.
At most it will be 500 jobs for people with 4 year degrees.
Their goal is to automate all jobs in current chinese factories Any new factories are going to get state-of-the-art automation from the very beginning.
This is the face of trump's america — massive tax breaks and deregulation for robots.
I don't know that it's fair to attribute this to Trump (and I voted for him). However, even if it was, why would this make anyone sad? Are you so partisan that you would actually lament the fact that 50,000 people in Pennsylvania are going to have new jobs? Have you become so cold and heartless that you would have people suffer just to advance your own political agenda?
I'm old enough to remember a time when the Democratic Party stood up for the working class; when they were the party of compassion; when they stood up for civil liberties like free speech. Sadly, the party has long since left all that (and me) behind. And if the last election was any indication, a lot of people in formerly blue states think the party has left them behind too, states like Pennsylvania.
Republicans have been so partisan that they blocked infrastructure improvements for 8 years and allowed their country to rot so their guy could shine by making infrastructure improvements one of his big campaign issues. You also blocked a posting to the supreme court so that you could fill it after the election. Not exactly an example of non-partisansship is it? While I don't see Democrats as being flawless by any stretch of the imagination you Trump voting Republicans aren't exactly angels of honesty virtue and selflessness either. You would do well to look in a mirror once in a while.
The problem with Trump and most of his campaign is that he's promising a quick, easy solution to a difficult problem: how do American workers stay competitive in a stage of increasingly easier global shipments?
And the problem with Trump's alternative is that she claims there was no problem. Democrats don't seem to get the utter incoherency of their position: America has no problems and Trump can't fix the really bad problems that America has.
Do you have ESP?
Foxconn first announced that they were "considering" building a factory in Harrisburg in 2013. So far they have moved this many shovels of dirt: 0.
So now they are rehashing the announcement three days after Trump's inauguration, getting lots of good press, and venting the steam from protectionism, while still uncommitted to actually doing anything. Politically, this is brilliant.
And if Obama and Democrats in congress push a health care plan directly modeled on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan (a plan which was considered a success by most Republicans), Republicans will be against it. This is not a new phenomenon, and it is not unique to one party or one president.
Actually the democratic health care plan was shaped much like it was to appease republicans. It didn't do a damn bit of good. They were party first, and f**k everyone else. Obama bent over backwards to get their buy in, and nothing happened. If anything that attempt made the program worse than it might otherwise be.
Democratic ain't perfect, but they will usually compromise to get the job done. I almost wish they would not. I'd like to see any plan for health care that is not clearly better voted no on, even if it leaves people without health care. Let the republicans fix their own mess.
Another fun thing I'm just watching is this wall nonsense CNN is covering. I can't see that stopping anyone even vaguely determined. Hell a couple rope ladders with hooks would probably do it. Drugs could be trivially tossed with only moderate mechanical assistance. Hell, wood I-beams regularly comes in 48' lengths. Take two and nail on some 1x3's and you probably can span 48'. Assemble it. Put it on a bigger truck with a large rack. Arrive at job site (wall). Dig hole to put bottom in. Have a person or four tilt it into the hole, driving forward a bit if needed. Then tie it back to the truck and back up. WIth a bit of luck and some guide ropes you now have a 48' ladder, that should span what 35 or so foot. So basically with a few helpers and what $200 in lumber and you have a nice easy walk to the top of the wall, where you can just rope ladder down.... It gets a lot easier if you don't have to deal with such a tall wall.