You might need heard about Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US Home of Representatives, and her go to to Taiwan. It has been everywhere in the information currently. However how is that related to the (*14*) 14 launch, you would possibly ask?
Nicely, as most of you recognize, Apple is TSMC’s prime buyer and the corporate ships chips to Pegatron in China the place iPhones are assembled. And Pelosi’s go to to Taiwan has put a good greater pressure on the China-Taiwan relationship. In consequence, the CCP has give you new laws forbidding any point out of “Taiwan” or “Republic of China” within the delivery paperwork. This in flip implies that some, if not all, of the {hardware} could be returned again to Taiwan and delay the (*14*) 14 manufacturing because of this.
To make issues worse, Pegatron’s Vice Chairman and prime executives from TSMC had been seen with Pelosi throughout the go to, so this could simply be a starting of a extra fierce commerce conflict between the CCP and Taiwan during which Apple and different US-based corporations are caught within the center.
Apple is already in talks with its Taiwanese companions and has requested that each 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 (*14*) 14 items 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 (*14*) 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 digital camera lenses of the (*14*) 14 Professional Max.