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by Christopher Woods on January 29th, 2004
Wherever's the cheapest! Many companies manufacture in Taiwan, China, Japan, the Asian states (where labour is cheap and plentiful due to the relative value of the local currency and much slacker labour laws, for one thing) - plus countries like Japan are really trailblazing when it comes to developing new technology.
That said, my 3dfx Voodoo 5 card was manufactured in New Mexico, so it's not entirely unheard of to find hardware manufactured outside of the Asian countries - it's just a lot cheaper to set up camp as a company in the Eastern countries, and many worldwide companies such as Creative or iRiver manufacture virtually all of their products in the East to maximise savings for themselves.
by James Beatty on April 21st, 2004
AMD runs processor fabrication plants (fabs) in Dresden, Germany. Intel runs fabs somewhere in the southwest, and possibly in California. IBM runs a big fab in upstate NY where the chips for the next generation of consoles (the PS3, X-Box Next and whatever Nintendo's making) are going to be made. TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.) and UMC (Universal Manufacturing Corp.) are both based in Taipei, Taiwan and run huge fabs there that make a lot of the world's RAM, video cards and motherboards.
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It's nice to know where computer parts are made. It is sad that most of the computer parts can't be made in the UUSA.
by snowflake1556 on October 5th, 2005
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