Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:33:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again |
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 08:17, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> It would be a major marketing slap for Jobs if the >> new design was done in Indiana (USA), now it's going >> to be done in India. > > Intel maybe moving part of chipset design to India but Apple still have their > product design with them which they haven't announced they will move anywhere > - or have they? >
Their Web Page doesn't show anything new as a result of the Intel deal. I understand that the Intel deal involved Intel-provided hardware design in one of Intel's new campuses in India. Intel has been in China for several years and established a $US200M "China-venture" fund to bring 20-21st century technology to China (broadband, semiconductor design, etc.)
> I am not sure if Apple today designs and manufactures chipsets and CPUs in USA > - most likely not, they buy it from IBM/Freescale. IBM/Freescale must have > designed / manufactured the chipsets and CPUs anywhere - again most likely > outside the US. And from what I have heard Apple computers are assembled in > China. >
Yes. Enough "final assembly", i.e., putting it in its shipping-box is done in the US so they don't need a "made in China" label!
Similar to GE appliances.
> So since long Apple's computers are designed in the US and manufactured / > assembled outside of the USA. And that continues to be the case going > forward, unless Apple announced they will move "their" product design to > somewhere else as a result of Intel's move. >
I think the US design is going away. I think in a few years, Silicon Valley will revert to some plum trees with migrant workers picking the crop. I might be able to buy an orchard at Apple's former site for a few thousand dollars. I've got to start saving now, though.
> Parag >
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