Re: [OT] reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

["Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Parag Warudkar wrote:

> On Friday 01 July 2005 08:17, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > It would be a major marketing slap for Jobs if the
> > new design was done in Indiana (USA), now it's going
> > to be done in India.
>
> Intel maybe moving part of chipset design to India but Apple still have their
> product design with them which they haven't announced they will move anywhere
> - or have they?

Their Web Page doesn't show anything new as a result of the Intel
deal. I understand that the Intel deal involved Intel-provided
hardware design in one of Intel's new campuses in India. Intel
has been in China for several years and established a $US200M
"China-venture" fund to bring 20-21st century technology to
China (broadband, semiconductor design, etc.)

> I am not sure if Apple today designs and manufactures chipsets and CPUs in USA
> - most likely not, they buy it from IBM/Freescale. IBM/Freescale must have
> designed / manufactured the chipsets and CPUs anywhere - again most likely
> outside the US.  And from what I have heard Apple computers are assembled in
> China.

Yes. Enough "final assembly", i.e., putting it in its shipping-box
is done in the US so they don't need a "made in China" label!

Similar to GE appliances.

> So since long Apple's computers are designed in the US and manufactured /
> assembled outside of the USA. And that continues to be the case going
> forward, unless Apple announced they will move "their" product design to
> somewhere else as a result of Intel's move.

I think the US design is going away. I think in a few years, Silicon
Valley will revert to some plum trees with migrant workers picking
the crop. I might be able to buy an orchard at Apple's former site
for a few thousand dollars. I've got to start saving now, though.

> Parag

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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