Foxconn, the manufacturer of Apple's devices, including the iPhone and iPad, is about to invest $2.6 billion in a facility in Taiwan dedicated to producing displays for a single client. While the client isn't explicitly named, few companies other than Apple could generate the demand that would require a dedicated display production facility. The plant is expected to begin producing displays by the end of next year, according to Bloomberg:
Equipment installation will commence next month with mass production of panels to start by the end of 2015 after an urgent request for exclusive capacity, Sophia Cheng, a public relations representative for Foxconn's display unit Innolux Corp., said by phone, citing comments made by President Wang Jyh-chau at a press conference today.
The facility should help Foxconn keep up with demand for new devices. Not long after the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Foxconn was said to be having trouble keeping up with demand for both phones.
Source: Bloomberg
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Foxconn building $2.6 billion dedicated display plant for a single client
Actually I personally think it's one other company and that's Samsung.
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Samsung IS a display company. They don't need Foxconn.
Single client could be Nokia .....
..... or maybe the Kindle Fire Fone, or whatever it's called.
If it is Apple, they really should bring at least some of this back home. Americans need jobs.
But I guess that means they'd actually have to pay the factory workers a living wage.
Sounds like FoxConn has no problem putting on its "big boy pants"
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Or, how long until Gene Muenster cites this as proof of an upcoming AppleTV, er, I mean TV?
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With the amount of new devices Foxcomm will be making for Blackberry i can see them doing this so it doesnt get in the way with its other commitments.
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