Foxconn became the world's largest foundry in 2004 and entered the Forbes 500 in 2005, and has been gradually increasing its ranking ever since. The largest shipments of Apple's cell phone in 2008 before the release of the first generation of products Apple 3G. At this time, Foxconn has jumped to Forbes 132, can be said to be in the right mood, Apple chose Foxconn OEM is also reasonable. Foxconn's strict standards and delivery capabilities have made Apple's success in its earlier generations of products. If you change a chain off the foundry, quality control capacity is enough for Apple to drink a pot, of course, Apple's strict factory standards also let Foxconn in the industry reputation.
Half of Foxconn's cellphone orders now come from Apple, but note that Foxconn does not just make cellphones. Foxconn is behind every digital product you'll ever hear of. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Motorola, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Alcatel and other world-renowned companies produce most of the computers, cell phones, digital cameras, monitors and other electronics that come out of Foxconn factories.
The first continues to be tied to Foxconn. Apple's super volume of companies most avoid relying on a particular company, so routinely, Apple's components will be at the same time to choose a number of procurement to increase bargaining power and avoid risk, but for the foundry, Apple really can not be helped. Apple is not trying to support, such as the choice of Ninja Bao computer, but teammates are not strong, either quality control problems or production capacity, resulting in Apple had to rely on Foxconn.
The second, with a strong cash flow frantically fostering the first family. However, under the global competition pattern, China's foundry has accumulated a large number of reserve forces in terms of talent and technology. If Apple wants to foster the first family, the United States has technology but high cost, Southeast Asia has no talent, technology is not pass, choose to choose or China. But then re-establish a Chinese foundry and Foxconn difference in where?
So, within a certain period of time, Apple certainly has the ability to foster a new foundry, provided that the loss of its production capacity and quality control in the end market, in exchange for a new Chinese brand foundry, seems to be a little bit more than enough.