These are made by machine dude. If they can assemble Teslas there they can operate a machine that assembles these.
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Advanced iPhone 18 Camera Sensor to Be Made in Texas
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Yes I get those blurry pictures all the time. With iPhones you have to be Still in order to get a good quality picture. Hopefully 🤞 the new Samsung sensor fixes that.
Made in USA is usually something when you read it, run.
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Sounds like a good choice to get around tariffs, but will probably jack the price up just the same for American labor unless they automate everything.
Hope they will only sell it on the US american market as it has no good reputation for building things
Maybe you didn’t notice but the iPhone Pro Max 17 maxed out is already a $2,000+ iPhone. I know because I bought one… 😉
Made by a Korean company using robots in America and then sent to India and China to be integrated into the phone assembly. Don't get too wild. It's a win, but only a small one.
If Chinese were questioning themselves like this in 2000, they would not be manufacturing anything even today.
If it’s a Advanced Sensor then why isn’t it going in the 18 Pro’s first? We’ll have to see more on this rumor, it’s Early.
a stacked sensor is for the Pro not for the regular iPhone
This and made in Texas hints at a bigger sensor, because...
Joking aside, I do hope it's a bigger sensor. With these tiny phone camera sensors, everything looks blurry at 100%.
I will not mention any names, but I had a very negative experience with a well-known American company in the cycling industry. The quality control of their products was a nightmare, with approximately one good item for every seven bad ones.
A good thing perhaps locally (jobs), not so good for the rest of the world (quality?, price?).
Background: the Samsung fab in northeast Austin where these camera modules are to be built was opened in 1996-97.
semiconductor.samsung.com
The Samsung Austin fab built all of the early iPhone processors. Not some, ALL. It was not until after the start of the Apple TSMC relationship in 2014 that iPhone CPU processor production moved from Austin. This is simply bringing a huge element of the iPhone supply chain back to central Texas. The new Samsung plant currently under construction a few miles away near Taylor is a completely different facility for different product lines.
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Discover Samsung's significant impact on the semiconductor industry and Central Texas's economy via its Austin operations and new Taylor facility.
semiconductor.samsung.com
The Samsung Austin fab built all of the early iPhone processors. Not some, ALL. It was not until after the start of the Apple TSMC relationship in 2014 that iPhone CPU processor production moved from Austin. This is simply bringing a huge element of the iPhone supply chain back to central Texas. The new Samsung plant currently under construction a few miles away near Taylor is a completely different facility for different product lines.
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There were no rumors for the 1st gen iPhone Fold having this tech, only the 18 pros, so I wouldn’t count on it having it. Maybe the 2nd gen iPhone Fold will have it.
It’s literally in the article that it destined for the iPhone 18 in early 2027 (the 18 Pro will launch in fall 2026).
I am curious as to why so many of you here dislike the idea of Apple manufacturing in the US? You prefer Apple's continued practice of ignoring its overseas contractors are using child labor and blatantly violating environmental standards? Yes it will likely cost more, but at least it will be built in a location that has to abide to labor and environmental standards.
