Comment by alecco
3 months ago
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Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)
3 months ago
Previous discussion (16 hours ago)
Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)
Does this mean that you will see entirely made in the USA Macs?
The closest you can get is the Mac Pro line starting with the Trashcan Mac Pro.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/after-federal-break-appl...
Depends, Do you have 10 year olds who will work for 18c an hour?
Or do you have consumers who will pay for the difference?
People already pay a premium on Macs to be honest. Every hard drive upgrade is ridiculously overpriced.
"Minecraft proves that the children yearn for the mines"
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Marginal cost added probably isn't that much. How many manhours does a mac take to build?
Got any more of that hyperbole? Or maybe outdated xenophobia?
The average manufacturing salary in China is around $13,000 a year, in a country where cost of living is 50% lower than the US and rent is 75% lower.
China is actually a place with relatively high manufacturing labor costs these days, but it's a production center for a lot of industries and holds a lot of the ecosystems and institutional knowledge (not unlike all the automotive parts suppliers in the American Midwest).
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Unfortunately the USA doesn't have religious prisoners who can be coerced into a factory as slave labor.
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None of the people assembling Apple products in China are 10-year-olds making $0.18 an hour.
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Humanoid robot workers are going to have a massive impact on industries like this. 'cheap labor' will no longer be isolated to certain regions.
The good thing about apple prices is they could easily not change any of their prices and just swallow the loss in profit.
But doubtful, it'll definitely be a premium made-inthe-usa labeling for government & school use.
Just grift grift grift, then graft graft graft.
They could do that -- then equity would correct investors would be like wait what. Exec and employee comp would decrease. Pressure to deliver consistent returns is real assuming its a material cost difference.