You might need heard about Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US Home of Representatives, and her go to to Taiwan. It has been all around the information these days. However how is that related to the iPhone 14 launch, you may ask?
Nicely, as most of you realize, Apple is TSMC’s high buyer and the corporate ships chips to Pegatron in China the place iPhones are assembled. And Pelosi’s go to to Taiwan has put an excellent greater pressure on the China-Taiwan relationship. Because of this, the CCP has give you new rules forbidding any point out of “Taiwan” or “Republic of China” within the transport paperwork. This in flip signifies that some, if not all, of the {hardware} could possibly be returned again to Taiwan and delay the iPhone 14 manufacturing consequently.
To make issues worse, Pegatron’s Vice Chairman and high executives from TSMC had been seen with Pelosi in the course of the go to, so this might simply be a starting of a extra fierce commerce struggle between the CCP and Taiwan by which Apple and different US-based firms are caught within the center.
Apple is already in talks with its Taiwanese companions and has requested that every one labeling with “Made in Taiwan” or “Republic of China” be eliminated or changed. It is also no shock that Ming-Chi Kuo’s sources declare that somne 6.1-inch iPhone 14 models will come out of Foxconn’s Indian manufacturing unit. For the primary time ever Apple is strongly diversifying its manufacturing.
The information comes on the worst attainable time because the iPhone 14 is simply across the nook and there are rumors going round that there are some high quality manufacturing points with the shows and the digicam lenses of the iPhone 14 Professional Max.
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