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If you were doing this in "real" volume, you would likely likely just cast aluminum into this shape.
However, companies like apple/amazon/etc have a tendency to just find a supplier who can sell them semi-specialized machines and buy a lot of them.
Apple has bought out (either the machines or capacity) for things like laser drilling.
Amazon echo/echo show's were made by buying a ton of semi-custom machines from these folks: https://mdaprecision.com/
(They talk about it in various places)
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If you were doing this in "real" volume, you would likely likely just cast aluminum into this shape.
However, companies like apple/amazon/etc have a tendency to just find a supplier who can sell them semi-specialized machines and buy a lot of them.
Apple has bought out (either the machines or capacity) for things like laser drilling.
Amazon echo/echo show's were made by buying a ton of semi-custom machines from these folks: https://mdaprecision.com/
(They talk about it in various places)