As we all know, iPhone is a product designed by Apple , but behind each finished iPhone, how many countries' brands and components are involved? The average number of parts in an Apple phone is as high as 200, which also means that more than 200 companies around the world are participating in their manufacturing process.
For every generation of iPhone manufacturing, Apple will look for high-quality parts suppliers around the world, and send these parts to Foxconn and Pegatron’s OEM factory for assembly and manufacturing
Every year, Apple will update its supplier list. Today, we take iphone14 and 13pro as examples to see which major brand suppliers are involved in the manufacturing process of Apple phones.
First of all, the processors of iPhone phones are basically from Apple's self-developed A series bionic chips. 13pro uses A15 series chips. The latest iPhone 14 released this year still uses the old A15 chips. It only has two models, iphone14pro and ProMAX, upgraded the processor to the A16 chip processor
memory. In terms of memory, Apple uses SK Hynix from South Korea. At the same time, South Korea's SK Hynix is also the world's second largest storage chip manufacturer and the world's third largest semiconductor company. , iphone's port multiplexed chip comes from NXPSemiconductorsNXP Semiconductors , the company's predecessor was the semiconductor business unit established by Philips in 1953. The particle supplier of storage chips is mainly from Kioxia, and Kioxia is actually in 2019 Japan's Toshiba Storage Company's official name
iphone13 and 14's 5G chips are designed and produced by Qualcomm in the United States, and the MCU microcontroller unit is from the STMicroelectronics joint venture Swiss enterprise STMicroelectronics (STSTMicroelectronics) , Another important component wireless charging receiving chip comes from Broadcon, the United States Broadcom designed and produced
batteries. In terms of the built-in lithium battery of iPhone, the main source of the built-in lithium battery of iPhone is from my country's sunwoda Xinwangda battery
LCD screen Take the latest released iPhone14 as an example. The main suppliers are from South Korea's Samsung and LG and my country's BOE
. Such an excellent product is combined with the joint participation of more than 200 suppliers of different brands to be completed. Therefore, this also makes Apple focus more on product design and innovation. In short, an excellent product not only requires top industrial design and product innovation capabilities, but also cannot be separated from the support and collaboration of many high-quality supply chain brands.
The above is about the supply chain brand introduction behind each iPhone. Hope it helps you.
