Foxconn’s plant in Shandong, eastern China, was reportedly on fire, which has now been extinguished with no casualties. The fire was in electrical cables on a building roof and the ’damage would be covered by insurance.’ It was apparently started from abandoned pipe lines on top of the building. More »

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It’s almost ridiculous to believe since Apple still hasn’t said or made an official announcement about the iPhone 5, but it seems as though one of their main suppliers, Foxconn, is trying to keep ahead of the predicted rush. Apparently, they are prepping and at full steam at working on producing 150,000 iPhone 5 units a day. More »

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According to DigiTimes, in the 3rd quarter of 2011 will see FoxConn deliver up to 20 million iPad 2s to Apple. That’s quite a staggering number! More »

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Foxconn is the electronics manufacturer that makes products for Apple (iPads and iPhones), Acer, Intel, HP, Dell, Nintendo, Nokia, Microsoft and Sony. The company plans to bring in over a million robots to replace the employees doing menial tasks like spraying, welding, and assembling. Chinese newswire Xinhua reported that this was announced by Foxconn’s chairman, founder, and CEO Terry Gou at the workers’ dance party. Foxconn already has 10,000 robots and that the number will increase to 300,000 next year and one million in three years. But according to the Financial Times, Gou meant to communicate that the robots would relieve workers of routine tasks who complained of being treated like robots. More »

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the upcoming iPhone 5 will be arriving in the third quarter of this year, possibly in September as previously rumored. But more interestingly, there are new claims from sources that say that the iPhone will be shedding some weight and arrive “thinner and lighter” with its next launch. More »

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Apple are normally one of the best companies to keep their upcoming devices top secret, normally a glimpse of the actual product doesn’t appear until hours before the official announcement. However, Shenzhen MacTop Electronics Co., has a general manger, Xiao Chengsong, who has been outed for bribing the former Foxconn employee, Hou Pengna, with $3,00 (around 20,000 yuan) for insider information. More »

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Many of us, until the past year, never heard of Foxconn, the Taiwan based company. Their Chinese factories make a huge amount of our gadgets for companies such as Apple, Dell and Amazon, until negative revelations besieged the company. More »

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Remember when we told you guys that Foxconn is forcing its staff to sign a ‘not to commit suicide’ agreement as not to repeat the incident wherein 14 of their workers killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions? Well, guess what. This manufacturing company is under scrutiny once again. More »

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Now its time to thank God that you are not working for Foxconn. This controversial Chinese manufacturer company is under scrutiny once again. Apparently, this company is forcing its staff to sign a ‘not to commit suicide’ agreement. Foxconn has decided to set this kind of contract as not to repeat the incident wherein 14 of their workers killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions. More »

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Three Foxconn employees were arrested by local authorities in China a few months back. In March, they were charged of leaking the design of Apple’s iPad 2 before the device was unveiled. It was not very pleasant reading for them. More »

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Foxconn demoed its 8.9-inch Tegra 2 slate in May. Is this the 10-inch version or the same model? Whatever the case, here is a look at its progression towards the assembly line. More »

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Spoken of at CES, Foxconn’s 8.9″ tablet reference design is a serious iPad challenger from the company that ironically manufactures Apple’s tablet, along with the Mac Mini, iPhone, iPod Touch, and a host of other boards and parts! Using an NVIDIA Tegra 2, duo-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and 1Gb of memory, the prototype slate has a front-facing camera and two USB ports. More »

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Beginning June, shortly after or at WWDC on the 7th, Apple is reportedly going to ship 24 million iPhone 4G/HD units before the end of the year. Foxconn is supposed to be the manufacturer that is building the new iPhone with IPS panels at 960×640 resolution. The LG and Prime View International displays are said to include FFS (fringe-field switching) for easier readability under sunlight. More »

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Foxconn had been the iPhone manufacturer and currently makes parts for many Apple devices like the iPod. Digitimes writes that Pegatron Technologies has replaced Foxconn as the builder of the CDMA iPhone 4G/HD. More »

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DigiTimes is reporting that Apple has already placed large orders for 10″ glass touchscreens from Foxconn’s subsidiary Innolux. A second report from Financial Times suggests that Apple has booked the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) for a Tuesday January 26th event, which could be for the announcement of the highly anticipated Apple Tablet. Steve Jobs recently took the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for Apple’s iPod line-up refresh press conference. More »

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