Though most of us know that " Apple products" including iPhone has this tagline " Designed in California and Made in China, but not many know how the apple supply chain runs. To summarize the " below infographic makes it clear how big an exercise is it to manage a global supply chain, when the individual components that support the iPhone come from countries as varied as China, Taiwan, Malta, Japan, South Korea and Germany.
Apple contracts have enabled its suppliers to invest in their own businesses. Foxconn, Apple's biggest supplier, for example, has invested heavily in robotics to help it meet its production quotas. Other emerging economies are getting in on the act too with iPhones now being assembled in Brazil. There are Apple suppliers in more than 30 countries around the world.
A recent AMR Research 'Supply Chain Top 25' list, Apple topped the spot outwitting Nokia, Dell, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Wal-Mart and others, due to what it called " a supply chain with "an intoxicating mix of brilliant industrial design, transcendent software interfaces and consumable goods that are purely digital,
Most of the iPhone components are outsourced except the Apple iOS, which is sourced at US. Here is the breakdown of Apple component maker by supplier and the country where it is manufactured.
Apple contracts have enabled its suppliers to invest in their own businesses. Foxconn, Apple's biggest supplier, for example, has invested heavily in robotics to help it meet its production quotas. Other emerging economies are getting in on the act too with iPhones now being assembled in Brazil. There are Apple suppliers in more than 30 countries around the world.
A recent AMR Research 'Supply Chain Top 25' list, Apple topped the spot outwitting Nokia, Dell, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Wal-Mart and others, due to what it called " a supply chain with "an intoxicating mix of brilliant industrial design, transcendent software interfaces and consumable goods that are purely digital,
Most of the iPhone components are outsourced except the Apple iOS, which is sourced at US. Here is the breakdown of Apple component maker by supplier and the country where it is manufactured.
- Samsung in South Korea : Application Processor & Memory
- GT Advanced Technology in Austin: Sapphire Crystal Components
- Texas Instruments in US : Touchscreen Processor
- Micron in US : Flash Memory
- LG in South Korea : The Largest Display Panel supplier
- Dialog Semiconductors makes the power management components
- STM Microelectronics of Taiwan used to make the accelerometers and the gyroscope, but recently it lost out to Invensense, a San Jose, California-based company
- Cirrus logic makes the audio controller
- Murata in Japan creates the WiFi and Bluetooth components
- Infineon in Germany make the phone network components
- Sony in Japan : supplies both rear and front cameras
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