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To: kaehurowing

Tell that to thousands of workers in Austin and Fremont making chips and components for Apple. Final assembly of Macs is in Fremont, California. By law, you can’t have that designation on your computers unless a majority of it is built in the U.S.A., otherwise it’d be labeled made in China like your PC variety computers. Most of it is manufactured here.


22 posted on 06/20/2016 10:56:38 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

who cares where the boards are assembled?

what matters is that the chips are being fabbed over there. the intellectual property is in the chip design and it’s there for the taking (i.e., reverse engineering) when you ship your deliverables off to a fab in china or taiwan (i have no doubts that chinese sympathizers work within tech companies in taiwan) or when your company forms a strategic alliance with a chinese company. it’s like giving the wolf the key to the chicken coop.

http://marketrealist.com/2015/09/china-emerges-new-competition-semiconductor-industry/


27 posted on 06/21/2016 12:12:14 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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