iPhone 14 uses the most parts made by Chinese companies ever made.
According to ITHome, iPhone 14 is the first generation of the storage chips that use YMTC in addition to Apple , in addition to Western Data and Toshiba , the two familiar partners, the first generation of YMTC. YMTC was founded in China in 2016 but has produced a large number of NAND chips, and the company's fourth-generation 3D TLC memory has 232 stacking technology. This is also the component supplier of Huawei .
Sources also said that U.S. senators initially opposed Apple's use of Yangtze Storage. The country's authorities say the company's use of chips would bring significant privacy and security vulnerabilities. Under pressure, Apple said it will only sell iPhone equipped with Yangtze Memory chips in China.
Apple often sets strict requirements on the types of hardware used by its products. Among the company's first list of suppliers released in 2012, 156 companies were selected. Among them, only eight are Chinese companies. By 2020, among the top 200 major suppliers, there will be 96 Chinese manufacturers. In 2021, another 12 Chinese companies were on the list. Therefore, Chinese brands account for half of the entire iPhone supply chain.
According to Jiwei statistics, among Chinese suppliers, 48 companies are listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange , and are headquartered in China. The largest market share are Luxshare Precision and Goertek . These companies provide connectors and speakers for Apple. The iPhone 14 series also uses BOE A, a display panel from China.
However, many domestic companies also rely on Apple's orders, such as day quasi-tech and APT focusing on machine vision technology , or Huaxing Yuanchuang and JPT, which manufactures parts for detection equipment... terminate their relationship with Apple, and these companies are considered to be important influence.
Previously, Apple began producing some iPhone 14 outside China at its Foxconn Sriperumbudur factory near Chennai, India since September. Currently, Foxconn produces iPhoneSE, iPhone12, iPhone13 and iPhone14, and the others are completely in China.
