Apple Inc has added several Taiwanese firms, including IC designer Novatek Microelectronics Corp (聯詠科技) and memorychip maker Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子), to its list of suppliers as it said it would continue to work with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電).
The US company on Wednesday published its supplier list for fiscal 2022 which ends in September.
Hon Hai plants in California, as well as India’s Tamil Nadu state and Vietnam’s Bac Giang Province, remained on the list, the announcement on Apple’s Web site showed.
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However, the Taiwanese firm’s plants in China’s Guangdong, Henan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang and Hubei provinces, as well as in Brazil’s Amazonas and Sao Paulo states and the US state of Texas were removed from the list.
Hon Hai, known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) outside of Taiwan, is a major iPhone assembler.
Taiwanese IC packaging and testing services provider ASE Technology Holding Co (日月光投控), metal casing maker Catcher Technology Co (可成科技), connector producer Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co (正崴精密), contract electronics maker Compal Electronics Inc (仁寶電腦) and printed circuit board manufacturer Compeq Manufacturing Co (華通電腦) also appeared on the list.
Other Taiwanese suppliers include power management solutions provider Delta Electronics Inc (台達電), smartphone camera lens makers Largan Precision Co (大立光) and Genius Electronics Optical Co (玉晶光), memorychip maker Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) and Pegatron Corp (和碩), a smaller iPhone assembler.
In addition to Novatek and Winbond, Taiwanese computer and peripheral equipment maker Primax Electronics Ltd (致伸科技), optical filter brand Platinum Optics Technology Inc (白金科技) and backlight LCD module developer Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp (瑞儀光電) were added to the latest list.
A plant in Taiwan operated by US-based specialty material solutions provider Trinseo has also been added to the list.
On the other hand, Taiwanese contract notebook computer maker Inventec Corp (英業達), IC substrate maker Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp (景碩科技), cooling solution provider Asia Vital Components Co (奇鋐科技) and powder metallurgy supplier Taiwan Powder Technologies Co (台耀科技) were removed from the list.
Apple said that the suppliers on the latest list represents 98 percent of its direct spending on materials, manufacturing and assembly of its products worldwide for fiscal 2022.
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