Everybody make love all of our electronics are made overseas , by teething masses anon. Asian factory workers laboring night and day . Which is why it ’s quite amusing to find out that Apple ’s A5 processor is built on a $ 3.6 billion Samsung production line in the middle of Texas .
According to Reuters , the A5 central processing unit — used in both the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 — is made in a Samsung plant in Austin , Texas .
The factory , operational since 1996 , previously just made NAND flash memory Saratoga chip . But a cash injection , which means the plant has now cost Samsung $ 3.6 billion , and a boost in staff numbers means the product line , with over 1,100 actor , now give rise semiconductor . It seems , though , that Apple accounts for almost all of the non - flash output of the factory .
The iPad 2 : plan in California . ( Partly ) built in Texas . [ Reuters ]
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