Showing posts with label Foxconn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foxconn. Show all posts
Amazon has chosen Foxconn for the production of its smartphone
Although Amazon has not yet officially announced the addition of a smartphone to its range of handsets seems increasingly likely. And according to the Taiwan Economic News, the same things are very advanced as Foxconn, the subcontractor Apple was chosen to fabricate the device with an order of 5 million units.
Last month already ensured that Digitimes Foxconn was selected by Amazon for this new project. No details have filtered but it is assumed that this smartphone will run as Kindle tablets, a modified version of Android.
According to the Taiwan Economic News, the launch will take place between the second and third quarter of 2013. The selling price of between 100 and 200 dollars, Amazon sticking to its aggressive pricing strategy to serve its ecosystem (music, applications, videos, e-books).
Foxconn factory closed after unrest among workers
After violent unrest among its workers the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn to close on Monday of his great works in China. Were in the factory in Taiyuan in Shanxi province on Sunday evening palpable conflicts erupted among workers, police reported.
In the conflict, more than 2,000 workers have been involved, was triggered by hitherto unconfirmed reports that security guards beat a worker. More than ten people were injured. Police forces had disengaged to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, the order was restored. The cause of the dispute was being investigated, police said further.
Foxconn manufactures for large computer companies such as Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony and others, the Group employed in the plant in Taiyuan, which is also part of the production chain for the new iPhone 5, 79,000 people. Foxconn has recently been repeatedly advised because of the working conditions in its factories under fire, especially the conditions of production of the iPhone have been put under the microscope. Recently it was said, in east China's Jiangsu Province, students would be forced to interrupt their studies and in a local Foxconn manufacturing plant to assemble the iPhone 5.
An initial report of the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in August but had found at least first major improvements in working conditions at Foxconn, at least in a business, the Group also had to raise wages because he had trouble finding enough workers.
In contrast to previous reports from China about clashes between security personnel and workers Foxconn itself speaks of it, the riots in Taiyuan had begun with a "personal dispute" between workers in a privately run hostel outside the factory. "Seems to have had nothing to do with the work" of this dispute, it said in a statement in Taipei.
A guardhouse was upset. In a bus windows were smashed. Cars were overturned, including a police car. Hundreds of police officers secured the roads around the plant. In a video cheering workers and security forces are seen.
Tough negotiations to Foxconn Joining Sharp
The negotiations on the planned entry of a subcontractor Foxconn when ailing electronics company Sharp run tough. In a roundtable discussion on Thursday was no solution has been found, reported the Japanese news agency Kyodo. Negotiations are scheduled to resume on Friday.
Foxconn manager Tai Jen-wu said, go on talks about how the cooperation between the two companies could improve the business at Sharp. Contract manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan was willing to help Sharp in many ways, it said without providing further details.
Foxconn is the world's largest contract manufacturer and produced for, among other things Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Following the agreement of March wanted Foxconn buy almost ten percent of Sharp, at a price of 550 yen (5.61 euros) per share. The course of the paper, however, given the high losses at Sharp slumped dramatically on Thursday, the stock cost only 227 yen (2.31 euros). Thus, the deal must be renegotiated. This Friday, the price fell further to below 200 yen (about 2 euros), following initial reports began circulating that Foxconn boss had left without negotiation result from Japan.
Sharp for the entry of Foxconn is extremely important because it will bring fresh money. Recently it has been speculated on possible alternatives, such as a new giant credit the creditor banks or investment by competitors such as Kyocera and Toshiba. According to recent reports, Japan's Sharp also examines the extension of the planned job cuts of 5,000 to 10,000 employees
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