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The $205.4B Gulag

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Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by keewee7 »

sayinbu wrote: post #2

I switched to iphone from android very recently and I do feel bad about it.

Almost all consumer electronics are made at these Chinese manufacturers. Only the high-end chips are from Taiwan, South Korea, or Arizona.

I'm software engineer at a Danish company that also manufactures a lot of industrial electronics. Our insight is that China is still the cheapest place to manufacture PCBs but it is surprisingly more efficient to setup pick-and-place robots here in Denmark to place the components onto the PCBs. The pick-and-place machines and assembly robots run all night now.

If we can figure out how to efficiently print the PCBs in Denmark/EU we will no longer have any critical reliance on China.

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Post by trasz2 »

keewee7 wrote: post #3
sayinbu wrote: post #2

I switched to iphone from android very recently and I do feel bad about it.

Almost all consumer electronics are made at these Chinese manufacturers. Only the high-end chips are from Taiwan, South Korea, or Arizona. I'm software engineer at a Danish company that also manufactures a lot of industrial electronics. Our insight is that China is still the cheapest place to manufacture PCBs but it is surprisingly more efficient to setup pick-and-place robots here in Denmark to place the components…

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Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by sayinbu »

keewee7 wrote: post #3
sayinbu wrote: post #2

I switched to iphone from android very recently and I do feel bad about it.

Almost all consumer electronics are made at these Chinese manufacturers. Only the high-end chips are from Taiwan, South Korea, or Arizona. I'm software engineer at a Danish company that also manufactures a lot of industrial electronics. Our insight is that China is still the cheapest place to manufacture PCBs but it is surprisingly more efficient to setup pick-and-place robots here in Denmark to place the components…

Almost all is not all right?

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Post by thefz »

> Due to the fatal flaw I mentioned above, I’ve always thought that the factories that build these tools/toys must be fascinating places that take materials, humans and magic in and push amazement out. Giant robotic arms moving around in a never-ending sync, working their magic, in harmony, producing our toys.

Yeah, "magic".

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by tristor »

I am making a concerted effort in my life to avoid buying things made in China. It’s harder than it sounds, and in the case of consumer electronics, impossible. If the point of this article is to make the reader feel bad for buying an iPhone, they’ve failed. Nearly every electronics device sold in the US is made or assembled in China, and most under even worse conditions than FoxConn.

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by yitianjian »

sayinbu wrote: post #6
keewee7 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost all consumer electronics are made at these Chinese manufacturers. Only the high-end chips are from Taiwan, South Korea, or Arizona. I'm software engineer at a Danish company that also manufactures a lot of industrial electronics. Our insight is that China is still the cheapest place to manufacture PCBs but it is surprisingly more efficient to setup pick-and-place robots here in Denmark to place the components…

Almost all is not all right?

Most Androids are included in the almost all, even if the chips are made in fabs in Taiwan so many other components have Chinese sourcing
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