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Intel to close several factories by year’s end
Intel, like everyone else, is facing tough economic challenges these days. And in facing a new world economy, the world’s largest chip producer has recently decided to close operations at several...
View ArticleAMD redux: First to 1GHz again, this time with overclocked ATI Radeon HD 4890...
A factory authorized air-cooled overclocked version of its ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU is now being offered by vendors. This is the second time AMD has been first to reach the 1GHz milestone.…
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iPad 2 supply cut by 500,000-2.8 million due to Foxconn blast?
On May 20th, Chinese-based Foxconn suffered an explosion that killed three workers and injured another 15. According to the Wall Street Journal, the blast occurred in Foxconn’s product polishing...
View ArticleRobots will soon replace some workers at Foxconn
Foxconn, a manufacturer of Apple products, hasn’t had the easiest relationship with its workers. With a spate of suicides and an explosion at one of the Taiwan-based company’s plants, Apple saw fit to…
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Bangkok flooding submerges Sony plant
It turns out that international hard drive supplies aren’t the only tech-related casualty of extreme flooding that has been taking place recently in Thailand. The dramatic image above reveals a Sony...
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New HP laptop ships with Chinese factory testing video
It’s very rare that you’ll ever see video footage of inside a Chinese factory where the gadgets we all use are being manufactured. Usually any such footage has been vetted and the workers…
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Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at Foxconn
The news feeds will be filled with talk of the iPhone today, and most of it is probably going to be positive. However, the Chinese new agency Shanghai Evening Post has posted a…
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Foxconn reopens after riots led to shutdown
It takes a lot to shut down Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, but after some 2,000 employees rioted on the company’s campus, leading to a response of 5,000 police officers, there was not much…
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How it’s made: Raspberry Pi edition
The Raspberry Pi might be the $25 PC (or the $35 one, depending on which model you get), but it’s not manufactured on-the-cheap. As this video shows, the RasPi is put together in…
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How it’s made: A colorful look inside the DayGlo factory
Back in middle school (or now when you go out to a rave) you might have painted either your room (or yourself) in DayGlo paint. As with Band-Aids and the Frisbee, the term…
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Foxconn accused of forcing students to assemble the PS4
Foxconn has found itself in hot water once again with regards to its labor practices. However, this time it isn’t in relation to the production of Apple’s devices. Instead, it’s how the manufacturing […]
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Galaxy S5 printed circuit board factory bursts into flames
The launch of the Galaxy S5 is a month away, but getting your hands on one come April 11 may be more difficult following the events of last weekend. It’s not that Samsung […]
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Armed robbers steal 40,000 Samsung devices from Brazilian factory
On Sunday a very well organized group of armed robbers managed to gain access to a Samsung manufacturing facility in Campinas, Sao Paulo. Over the course of four hours they stole around 40,000 […]
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Married couple ran Beijing factory that made 41,000 fake iPhones
The iPhone has a very high profit margin attached to it, which is great for Apple, but also great for counterfeiters. It means they can manufacture fake iPhones and sell them for a […]
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