Posted on 12/08/2023 4:05:25 PM PST by FarCenter
TAIPEI -- Apple is for the first time allocating product development resources for the iPad to Vietnam, sources briefed on the matter said, a major step toward strengthening the Southeast Asian country's position as an alternative manufacturing hub outside of China.
Apple is working with China's BYD, a key iPad assembler, to move new product introduction (NPI) resources to Vietnam. NPI involves a tech company like Apple collaborating with suppliers on the design and development of new products to make sure the blueprints are doable. This is the first time Apple has shifted NPI resources to Vietnam for such a core device.
Engineering verification for test production of an iPad model will start around mid-February next year, sources told Nikkei Asia. The model will be available in the second half of next year.
BYD was also the first Apple supplier to help the U.S. tech titan shift iPad assembly for the first time to Vietnam in 2022, Nikkei reported earlier. This shift of NPI engineering resources is focused on entry-level models rather than the premium iPad Pro.
NPI demands substantial resources both from the tech company and its suppliers, such as engineers and investment in lab equipment for testing new features and functions.
Most of Apple's NPI is carried out in China, in collaboration with engineers in Cupertino, to take advantage of the country's decades long experience in hardware manufacturing. But geopolitical uncertainties are forcing the company to rethink this approach. Apple also plans to send some NPI processes for the iPhone to India, Nikkei Asia reported earlier.
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And today Vietnam is a solid ally in the region, a country where young people curse their parents for kicking the Americans out. "We could've been Seoul!" they tell them.
It does not matter if they are selling iPhones or running a lemonade stand, Apple is worth three trillion dollars.
“Now it will be called iPho.”
For anyone headed to Ho Chi Minh City, the locals call it Saigon and the best Pho is at Pho Hoa on Pasteur, about 230 Pasteur.
It wasn’t so many years ago that every time anyone posted an Apple thread, you could see the hate dripping off the screen, so virulent were the posts.
Things change, in this case for the better.
Yep. My MacBook is from 2010. Not a virus ever. Those other computers never lasted because they are junk.
yup replaced my pc about every year year and a half what a joy it is to just walk up to it and hit a key and up it pops f the task manager visits every day on those pc s
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