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Samsung Investing $4 Billion in Austin, Texas to Boost Smartphone Processor Production

Love/Hate relationship=Coexistence

Apple needs Samsung, Samsung needs Apple ...
Both are same-same, only different ...
... Otherwise, can you say 'Antitrust Suit' ... oh, also competition . . . GOOD!!!!
 
shanson27 said:
Apple should stop Samsung giving money !
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Samsung makes alot of the iphones components and if they changed im sure whatever company gets the job would need alot of investment to get the parts made to such a scale so the parts cold quite possibly cost more and wont neccesarily be of the same standard. But by your logic it should jst goto a different company cos its samsung. This doesnt help anyone. Good one!
 
Intarweb said:
So the great and evil Korean company Samsung is going to be investing $4 billion dollars more in manufacturing in the good ol' U S of A than Apple does? At a time when manufacturing needs to come back to the United States, it's a Korean electronics company, not an American electronics company, leading the way.
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Apple is not a manufacturing company, so it's pretty obvious that Samsung would invest more in manufacturing. And BTW, Apple has already invested (and planning to invest) a couple of billion $$ themselves in data centers in the USA.
 
samcraig said:
When you name sling (i.e. Samesung, M$, Windoze, etc) it only weakens your credibility.
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It's from 30 Rock, take it easy there Honest Abe.

Jack Donaghy: This is G.E.!
Devon Banks: It's just G now, Jack, I sold the E. To Samsung. They're Samesung now.
 
curious... outside of the data centers (1 built and 1 pending) does Apple have any other large facilities like this in the US?
Not including it's headquarters in California.
 
Drunken Master said:
It's from 30 Rock, take it easy there Honest Abe.

Jack Donaghy: This is G.E.!
Devon Banks: It's just G now, Jack, I sold the E. To Samsung. They're Samesung now.
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That's nice. Last time I checked, you didn't put it in quotes nor are you on a fictional TV show.

I'd respect your post more if you just admitted you were digging at Samsung and not adding any real content to this thread instead of trying to justify your usage :)
 
twosee said:
Apple is not a manufacturing company, so it's pretty obvious that Samsung would invest more in manufacturing. And BTW, Apple has already invested (and planning to invest) a couple of billion $$ themselves in data centers in the USA.
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No they're not but their products can be assembled here they choose not to. It's shame and something this country could use. I'm quite pleased with Samsung for doing this. Next time I'm looking for a piece of electronics I will look in Samsung's direction first.
 
samcraig said:
That's nice. Last time I checked, you didn't put it in quotes nor are you on a fictional TV show.

I'd respect your post more if you just admitted you were digging at Samsung and not adding any real content to this thread instead of trying to justify your usage :)
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That's nice, I see you don't have a sense of humor. :)
 
nazaar said:
curious... outside of the data centers (1 built and 1 pending) does Apple have any other large facilities like this in the US?
Not including it's headquarters in California.
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I'm sure someone knows the answer to that, but I would assume not many. If I'm not mistaken they are building a new campus that would hold up to 13,000 employees. But MANY companies, including the good ole Apple Pie (no pun intended) companies like GM have opened up manufacturing facilities all over the world. Cheaper labor, MUCH lower corporate taxes etc. And they are always closing US plants. Blame on the economy, politics (governments not wanting to lower corporate taxes to keep corporations home), cheap labor, competition or anything else you want, but it's not only Apple doing it.
 
Intarweb said:
No they're not but their products can be assembled here they choose not to. It's shame and something this country could use. I'm quite pleased with Samsung for doing this. Next time I'm looking for a piece of electronics I will look in Samsung's direction first.
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I understand, and I agree that we SHOULD have more companies open manufacturing plants here. But is it possible that there are no manufacturing companies in the US that can handle the volume and quality that Apple needs? Why is it Apple's fault?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Apple one of Samsung's biggest clients? If so wouldn't Apple be one of the reasons Samsung can/is building this plant? And there you go... Apple WILL be using an American plant to manufacture parts for their products.
 
Samsung's mobile division and semiconductor division operate completely separately. So the business decisions of mobile do not impact semiconductor. Samsung would lose a ton of money if Apple stopped using their semiconductor as a supplier. Samsung really leads mobile chip production compared to other companies out there. When intel catches up in a few years, it may be a different story.

I've worked for a large company where one of our divisions supplied parts to a competitor of the division I worked in. Each business unit has their own goals on getting the most revenue as possible. It is rare to have one division to give up profits to make another division happy.
 
Arnold Ziffel said:
It's more like corporations own the State of Texas, from Rick Perry <blech> on down.
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So it's bad when a state with a republican governor attracts business to invest billions in the state but when, say, our President writes billion dollar checks to GM, failing solar companies, and Freddie/Fannie it's okay? Clean it up Arnie.
 
Good Samsung or Bad Samsung?

Good Samsung - making chips in USA
Bad Samsung - ripping off iDevice designs

Or maybe Tim Cook and Samsung "made a deal" and this is part of it.
 
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