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Where Is the iPhone Made?

It takes a village to build an iPhone

Anyone who has bought an iPhone or another Apple product has seen the note on the company’s packaging that its products are designed in California, but that doesn’t mean they’re manufactured there. Answering the question of where the iPhone is made isn’t simple.

Assembled vs. Manufactured

When trying to understand where Apple manufactures its devices, there are two key concepts that sound similar but are different: assembling and manufacturing.

Manufacturing is the process of making the components that go into the iPhone. While Apple designs and sells the iPhone, it doesn’t manufacture its components. Instead, Apple uses manufacturers from around the world to deliver individual parts. The manufacturers specialize in particular items—camera specialists manufacture the lens and camera assembly, screen specialists build the display, and so on.

Assembling, on the other hand, is the process of taking all the individual components built by specialist manufacturers and combining them into a finished, working iPhone.

The iPhone’s Component Manufacturers

Because there are hundreds of individual components in every iPhone, it’s not possible to list every manufacturer whose products are found on the phone. It’s also difficult to discern exactly where those components are made because sometimes one company builds the same component at multiple factories.

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Some of the suppliers of key or interesting parts for the iPhone 5S, 6, and 6S and where they operate, included:

• Accelerometer: Bosch Sensortech, based in Germany with locations in the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
• Audio chips: Cirrus Logic, based in the U.S. with locations in the U.K., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore
• Battery: Samsung, based in South Korea with locations in 80 countries
• Battery: Sunwoda Electronic, based in China
• Camera: Qualcomm, based in the U.S. with locations in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and more than a dozen locations through Europe and Latin America
• Camera: Sony, based in Japan with locations in dozens of countries
• Chips for 3G/4G/LTE networking: Qualcomm
• Compass: AKM Semiconductor, based in Japan with locations in the U.S., France, England, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
• Glass screen: Corning, based in the U.S., with locations in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, the U.K., and the United Arab Emirates
• Gyroscope: STMicroelectronics. Based in Switzerland, with locations in 35 countries
• Flash memory: Toshiba, based in Japan with locations in over 50 countries
• Flash memory: Samsung
• LCD screen: Sharp, based in Japan with locations in 13 countries
• LCD screen: LG, based in South Korea with locations in Poland and China
• A-series processor: Samsung
• A-series processor: TSMC, based in Taiwan with locations in China, Singapore, and the U.S.
• Touch ID: TSMC
• Touch ID: Xintec. Based in Taiwan.
• Touch-screen controller: Broadcom, based in the U.S. with locations in Israel, Greece, the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium, France, India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea
• Wi-Fi chip: Murata, based in the U.S. with locations in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, The Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., Germany, Hungary, France, Italy, and Finland

The iPhone’s Assemblers

The components manufactured by those companies all around the world are ultimately sent to just two companies to assemble into iPods, iPhones, and iPads. Those companies are Foxconn and Pegatron, both of which are based in Taiwan.

Technically, Foxconn is the company’s trade name; the firm’s official name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. Foxconn is Apple’s longest-running partner in building these devices. It currently assembles the majority of Apple’s iPhones in its Shenzen, China, location, although Foxconn maintains factories in countries across the world, including Thailand, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines.

Pegatron is a relatively recent addition to the iPhone assembly process. It is estimated that Pegatron built about 30 percent of the iPhone 6 orders in its Chinese plants.

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Where does Apple make iPhones?

Apple is also linked to a number of suppliers with factories in India, Thailand, Czech Republic and more

Apple assembles the majority of its iPhones in factories located in Zhengzhou, China, though iPhone parts are also produced in other countries, including the U.S.

The Zhengzhou factory with about 350,000 assembly workers can produce as many as 500,000 iPhones per day, and locals call Zhengzhou «iPhone City,» according to a 2016 New York Times investigation.

The tech giant’s supplier, Foxconn, is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Shenzen, China, which has a population of about 12.5 million residents.

A worker inspects an iPhone at a final assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China. (Apple)

Foxconn plans to invest up to $1 billion in India to move some iPhone production out of China, two sources told Reuters in a July 10 report.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has pointed out that Apple parts are produced at U.S. electronics manufacturer Corning’s factories in Kentucky and Texas, but the phones are mostly assembled in China, according to a 2020 New York Times report.

The starting wage for Apple’s workers in Zhengzhou is $3.15, the Times reported.

Foxconn’s presence in Zhengzhou, a city of about 10 million residents as of 2018, has transformed life for its poorer residents because it has built new roads, homes and power plants, according to the 2016 Times report.

In this May 26, 2010 file photo, staff members work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, southern China. (Associated Press)

The manufacturing company’s Shenzen factory also employs hundreds of thousands of workers. A Shenzhen-based employee told Business Insider in 2018 that they like their jobs at Foxconn because they get Sundays and two national holidays off, plus performance-based bonuses.

Foxconn made changes to its workplace culture after dozens of employees committed suicide, some on the company’s grounds, in 2010 and 2011, prompting riots from workers protesting overcrowded dorms, poor sanitization and bad food, according to BI and a 2012 Wall Street Journal investigation.

Apple is linked to at least nine suppliers, including Foxconn, that have factories in India, Thailand, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore and the Philippines, according to investment information website Investopedia.

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How and Where iPhone Is Made: A Surprising Report on How Much of Apple’s Top Product is US-manufactured

Are the last chapters of the iPhone saga unfolding? Not by any stretch of imagination, if you ask the Apple faithful. Definitely starting, if you ask the Android challengers.

The world and word war between Android and Apple just keeps escalating to ever greater heights, and has been the most engrossing story in business and software market for quite a number of quarters now. Let’s not even talk courtroom battles and intellectual property clashes here. Very few technologies are completely new. Most owe a debt of gratitude to forebears who laid the foundation for all the awesomeness we carry around in our bags and pockets. Let’s just talk about sales.

The release of iPhone 6 last September 2014 put the focus once more on the Apple supply chain. I pointed out in a recent article tiny “cracks” in the Apple’s Chinese supply chain, notably the introduction of robotics to cut production costs. Will these machines become more engaged in the future and displace Chinese workers, too?

Clearly, Apple has never been as popular as it was in the 2nd quarter of 2013. In the Q3 earnings call, Apple reported thanks to their highly efficient strategies as much as 31.2 million iPhones were sold in that quarter. In fact, 34 million units of iPhone 5 were sold in the first 100 days. This was a quarterly record for Apple. Contrast this with 26 million iPhones sold last year. The company’s flagship product still has firm believers worldwide. That’s not the whole story, however, because incredible as it may seem iPhone 5 sales figures in the last three quarters were lower than what Wall Street expected causing massive fluctuations in the value of Apple’s shares in the stock market.

From the left flank, it looks like the Android charge led by Samsung is gaining ground. In 2012, Apple lost its firm grip on the smartphone market and Android manufacturers were emboldened to match Apple’s products spec for spec and price point for price point. Apple still leads, but not by miles. By the end of July 2013, Android phones have 65% of all smartphone sales in the nine influential smartphone markets in the world (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Australia, China, Mexico), although as a single model, iPhone still has the biggest slice of the pie – 26.3%.

In the aftermath of Apple’s double whammy release of the premium iPhone 5s and the more price-friendly iPhone 5c, the excitement over has skyrocketed to even greater heights. What fortune awaits the radical plastic-enclosed iPhone 5c? Is Apple running scared or is it just plain smart? Two can play the game, after all. If Android manufacturers are leveling up to Apple’s premium space, why can’t Apple level down to Android’s budget territory? It turns out that the iPhone 5c is not so cheaply priced, after all. It’s still a premium device targeted solidly at the mini versions of the flagship devices of Android rivals Samsung, HTC and Sony.

Fact is, Apple gets even more aggressive than usual. Weeks before the new iPhones were officially released, it implemented a trade-in program that will take hundreds of dollars off the price of the new handset if the customer turns in an older model in perfect working condition.

With sales of 9 million smartphones (combined for the 5s and 5c) reported on just the opening weekend, it looks like Apple has another winner in its hands and safely through with flying colors for the next four quarters, at the very least.

In this infographic we trace a sruprising report on how and where iPhone is made, what’s its supply and manufacturing chain and info on how much of iPhone is actually US-manufactured. We’re providing snippets of information on just who is making the parts that go into the two new iPhones, and where, exactly, these parts are made. Did you know, that the much-touted fingerprint sensor was imagined in Florida, but manufactured in Asia by Taiwanese giant TMSC? How about the M7 motion co-processor? Did you know that it’s the brainchild of NXP, a company in the Netherlands, which has fabrication facilities in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines?

Still, reports are coming in that US companies involved in the Apple supply chain are beefing up their US production facilities and many of the components that go into the iPhone are actually made Stateside and shipped to China for assembly.

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Question: Q: Where are Macbooks made?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 6, 2006 1:49 PM

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Sep 6, 2006 2:24 PM

That’s pretty pessemistic, isn’t it? It is my understanding that the RSD problem is the minority of the machines coming out.

they’re made in cupertino california wich is where
the apple head quarters is, it’s outside of San
Francisco. And you probably will have the shutting
down problem

G4 Silver — a Macbook soon Mac OS X (10.4.7) iPod Nano Nike+

Sep 6, 2006 2:24 PM

I’m sorry my good sir but your reply about the manufacturing location is incorrect.

In fact the Macbook’s are DESIGNED in Cupertino, but as far as MANUFACTURING you will find that they are built in Suzhou China. It’s on the Eastern Shoreline so as to make shipping, and availability easy.

2.0Ghz Whitebook 1GB DDR2, 80GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Sep 6, 2006 2:26 PM

the computer are manufactured in something china-

-well, yeah, that’s what I meant

Sep 6, 2006 2:29 PM

As far as I remember, Apple has never manufactured anything in Cupertino since the early years of the Apple II.

Sep 6, 2006 3:51 PM

Tells you when and where your Mac was made.

Sep 6, 2006 4:20 PM

Sep 6, 2006 5:07 PM

Sep 6, 2006 10:47 PM

Yes, I understand its the Suzhou facility that builds for them. But Suzhou also builds for other manufacturers, too. Its the designers in Cupertino that must accept the accolades — and plenty of brickbats — for the MacBook.

Give factory workers (whom you’re probably paying about .25 an hour, if the recent iPod living/working conditions debacle is anything to go by) a badly designed device and you get back what you pay for.

Sadly, the consumer doesn’t enjoy that discount — paying a considerable premium for an Apple product, with little beyond the OS to show for it.

Sep 7, 2006 5:40 AM

Yes, I understand its the Suzhou facility that builds
for them. But Suzhou also builds for other
manufacturers, too. Its the designers in Cupertino
that must accept the accolades — and plenty of
brickbats — for the MacBook.

Give factory workers (whom you’re probably paying
about .25 an hour, if the recent iPod living/working
conditions debacle is anything to go by) a badly
designed device and you get back what you pay for.

Sadly, the consumer doesn’t enjoy that discount —
paying a considerable premium for an Apple product,
with little beyond the OS to show for it.

I don’t know what the workers are paid etc. but I’m pretty happy with my MacBook. I have no problems with the way it runs or the way it looks, fit, finish everything is perfect on mine. I don’t think the price was unreasonable either, actually almost the same as comparable notebooks with the same features. And considering I could run windows along with OSX if I wanted too it seems to be a bargin. Oh and to stay on topic my MacBook was made in China, if you just ordered one from Apple you can follow the fedex tracking it usually starts out in China.

Macbook, 2.0 duo, black Mac OS X (10.4.7) 80 gb hd, 2 gb ram, 5g ipod, 2g ipod

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