Re:Apple Announces Multibillion Deal with Broadcom to Make C...
by e-clinton on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:40PM
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Curious how many dollars it would add to each iPhone.
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Re:Apple Announces Multibillion Deal with Broadcom to Make C...
by bluGill on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:10PM
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That depends. The US is really cheap if your factory is fully automated, and Apple makes enough phones that full automation seems like it should be a win. For smaller production runs cheap labor is cheaper than the cost of building automation. Optimizing these curves is hard. (Note that China is really a lot cost of labor country anymore, and so production is moving away, but this is a long slow process, not to mention China is investing in automation and reportedly doing well)