Apple is dominated by ruthless managers and is an evil corporation. I'm not surprised.
Imagine if you happen to be a neighbor and a disaster happens in the fab. That's just nuts.
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#42Apple, you have infinite money. Just pay this lady the $50,000,000 she wants so she can move to a nice clean place over in Atherton.
And pay your fines to the government and move your fabs to remote areas so this doesn’t happen again.
There, problem solved. I’ve saved everyone millions of dollars in litigation fees, time, and now our judiciary system can tackle other problems.
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#44Apple, you have infinite money. Just pay this lady the $50,000,000 she wants so she can move to a nice clean place over in Atherton. And pay your fines to the government and move your fabs to remote areas so this doesn’t happen again. There, problem solved. I’ve saved everyone millions of dollars in litigation fees, time, and now our judiciary system can tackle other problems.
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#45Americans discovering the real reason why things are made in China
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#46While I don't doubt the facts and EPA analysis around the case and the measurements, how many other local residents reported this and are fighting it?
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#47Why was the previous discussion flagged?
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#48Apple, you have infinite money. Just pay this lady the $50,000,000 she wants so she can move to a nice clean place over in Atherton. And pay your fines to the government and move your fabs to remote areas so this doesn’t happen again. There, problem solved. I’ve saved everyone millions of dollars in litigation fees, time, and now our judiciary system can tackle other problems.
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This seems unusually problematic. A Bhopal Gas Tragedy waiting to happen.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "One thing is for sure, it's not a silicon fab." Why do you say that? Yes, the EPA report seems to be redacted to obscure what they're actually doing there. But there are multiple reports, some from Apple employees, that refer to it as a being some sort of small scale, "skunkworks" silicon fab.
> Why do you say that? Mainly because Apple's custom silicon could not even be prototyped in a small scale facility. It'd likely be in Taiwan. > But there are multiple reports, some from Apple employees, that refer to it as a being some sort of small scale, "skunkworks" silicon fab. I apologize if I missed them. Please highlight. Curious of the credentials of the folks reporting such a thing, as well.
> It'd likely be in Taiwan.
For sampling new nodes and producing the bulk of their chips, sure. But anything that's not tied to ASML doesn't inherently need to take place in Taiwan. TSMC is in a hugely advantaged position with IP and scalability, but I think it's feasible that Apple could test new lithography techniques or large-scale dies in any sort of environment they choose. Nobody is necessarily implying that they're prototyping low-yield iPhone hardware there.
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#50Americans discovering the real reason why things are made in China
One of the many reasons. The biggest reason the last place I worked at that did manufacturing was that there were import tariffs on components but not assemblies so they just built the assemblies in China.