Setting aside the global health implications, Apple and its suppliers may have got lucky with the timing of the coronavirus outbreak.
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The decades-old supply chain is starting to split in two: one beyond China’s borders that serves American concerns, and another within the world’s most populous country that caters to local consumers.
Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing.
Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of Apple iPhones, aims to cut $2.9-billion from expenses in 2019 as it faces “a very difficult and competitive year”, according to an internal company memo.
Apple has told Foxconn and Pegatron to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to iPhone Xr, the Nikkei reports, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
Storm clouds are brewing over the global technology industry. A host of hardware companies are sitting on inventory stockpiles not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago.
Apple is about to pump up the volume on its audio-device strategy, planning higher-end AirPods, a new HomePod and studio-quality over-ear headphones for as early as next year, according to people familiar with
Sharp, controlled by Foxconn Technology Group, plans to buy Toshiba’s PC business as its Taiwanese parent seeks to expand beyond contract manufacturing and build a brand of its own. Toshiba is selling 80% of the unit for
HMD Global has launched its first flagship high-end phone, the Nokia 8, in South Africa. The phone, which sports vanilla…
Amazon.com has joined Tencent and the main assembler of iPhones in backing Essential Products, the start-up co-founded by Android-creator Andy Rubin that’s getting ready to sell a new smartphone. China’s largest social