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Foxconn Building New Chip Fab In China
Foxconn Finally Moves Into Silicon Fab Bussiness Even as the silicon market has consolidated over the past couple of years, new entrants are still lining up. The latest to join the competitive industry appears to be Foxconn. Apple’s iPhone are the companies most well-known product. The company also does work for many other…
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Foxconn May Bring Chinese Employees to Wisconsin Plant
Foxconn Employment Concerns Foxconn, a well-known large manufacturer of Apple products is setting up a new plant in Wisconsin after receiving nearly $4B in subsidies from the state. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is struggling to hire workers for the plant. Even prompting the possibility of…
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Foxconn Buys Belkin and Linksys for $866 Million USD
Foxconn Grows Further Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn is already behind approximately 40% of all consumer electronics in the world. This even includes iPhones and components for PCs you are likely using. Now they have agreed to purchase Belkin for $866 million in cash. The American company also owns the Linksys, Phyn…
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Thecus Announces New Partnership With Origin Storage
There is great news for the UK NAS market as Thecus struck a new deal and entered an exclusive partnership with Origin Storage to manage its reseller channels in both the UK and Ireland. With more than a decade of success, Origin is well known for their commitment to quality and…
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iPhone Manufacturing in The USA Being Considered
Almost every consumer electronic product is manufactured in China or another Asian territory. This is due to cheap labour and extremely long working hours. Factories like Foxconn have been criticised for treating the workforce poorly and putting productivity above people’s mental wellbeing. Of course, the entire picture remains unclear but…
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Foxconn Axes 60,000 Workers and Replaces Them with Robots
Foxconn is the world’s largest manufacturing contract company and produces a huge range of products for leading brands including Apple. They’ve also been responsible for creating Sony’s last two consoles and shipping units out on a mass scale. As you can imagine, they are an essential component of the modern…
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iPhone 6C Rumoured to Have a 4-Inch Display and Metallic Body
There are always speculations about what the next Apple devices will boast. However, sometimes these speculations turn out to be true, so here it is. According to a blog post on MyDrivers.com posted a pic, emphasising how the upcoming iPhone 6C would look like. The blog also mentions that the…
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Apple & Foxconn Double Down On Display Manufacturing Deal
Foxconn is one of Apple’s main go-to companies when it comes to all things manufacturing for its iPad and iPhones, with a new request from Apple: a $2.6 billion investment, which will see Foxconn opening up a new manufacturing plant that will handle displays, for Apple only. Innolux, Foxconn’s display…
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eTeknix Exclusive: iPhone 6 Pictures
With the launch of the iPhone 6 due upon us very soon, rumours and mock-ups are appearing here there and everywhere, but as always; it’s hard to believe what is real and what is photo-shopped. We had one of our sources send us exclusive never before seen images of the…
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Foxconn Confirms Foxbots Will Be Making the iPhone 6
With the launch of the anticipated iPhone 6 rumoured to only be a few months away, Apples manufacturer of the iPhone – Foxconn have announced that they will be using a number of autonomous robots to help them ramp up the production rate over the hands of manual workers. Priced…
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Foxconn CEO Says Employee Suicides Due to Personal Problems, Not the Company
Chinese technology manufacturer Foxconn is essentially denying responsibility for worker deaths, saying 90 percent of the problems were related to personal and family problems. Foxconn produces products and hardware for Apple, Nintendo, Hewlett-Packard, and other major global manufacturers. When demand for products ramps up, Foxconn adds tremendous workload to its…
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New Rumors Surface For The Upcoming iPhone 6, Solar Charging Capabilities?
More rumors are rolling out for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6. But they are not about to disclose any rumors regarding their product, of course, until they release the handset this fall. It is expected for Apple to strap in a faster processor, better camera, and other items that are generally…
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Foxconn Planning To Release Their Own 14nm Chips On The Consumer Market
Foxconn is reportedly making preparations to enter the chip market with its own products. The giant, which makes chips for other companies such as Apple, BlackBerry, Sony etc., is willing to acquire Socle technology through which Foxconn is expected to deliver chips on the consumer market. A chip manufacturer itself,…
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Quanta Computer Rumored To Make the New 12.9-inch iPad
According to Digi Times, Quanta Computer has reportedly booked orders for the new large-sized Apple iPad rumored large-size iPad that should come out in Q2 2014. Quanta has obviously denied the rumors. Apple has been separating its orders among multiple ODMs recently and has given some of its iPad and…
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Sony’s PS4 Being Made By Some “Forced” Unpaid Intern Students At Foxconn Factory
Well here is a story that will no doubt tarnish Sony’s reputation before the PlayStation 4 has even officially launched. Games In Asia report that Sony’s PlayStation 4 production line at a China-based Foxconn factory uses unpaid student interns. These student interns are apparently forced to work unpaid at the…
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