Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC
by MichaelZuo on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @10:25AM
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How does this square with 5G radios being almost entirely made in Asia? As in the entire chain from antenna design to finished chip happens >90% in Asia by dollar value.
None of the things you mentioned come even close in terms of complexity, on a per cubic volume basis at least.
It goes on and on. The majority of what has been outsourced to China (and Taiwan and Singapore and India and Vietnam) is the "face" of high tech electronics, and the majority of electronic piece parts components, but not final assembly and not much of the tricky stuff. I don't think we'll see a quick ramp of high-vol/low-mix mfg coming back anytime soon because too much of the supply chain is in Asia, but it could if there were sufficient demand.