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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Apple partner Foxconn
now making half the world's output of OEM electronics devices via 9 to
5 Mac - Apple Intelligence by Jonny Evans on 7/28/10

Apple's position as the world's leading computing device company has
driven manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to seize an astonishing 50 per
cent of the world's electronic manufacturing services market, said
iSuppli today. Half of the world's production of consumer electronics
devices come from a Foxconn factory, with Apple's production demand
driving this record, iSuppli explains. This is now an Apple world.

"Foxconn's customers are some of the hottest companies in the
electronics business today, most notably Apple," said Thomas Dinges,
iSuppli associate. "As Apple and others have gained share, so has
Foxconn."

With revenue of $17.1 billion, Taiwan's Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision
Industries, was the dominant EMS provider in the first quarter of 2010,
dwarfing No. 2 player Flextronics International, which posted revenue
of $5.9 billion during the same period. Apple represents the
fastest-growing customer for Foxconn, which manufactures products
including the iPad and the iPhone 4.

iSuppli last week noted that Apple had issued increased production
targets for the iPad to its Asian suppliers. iSuppli now predicts Apple
will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, an amount that will nearly triple
to reach 36.5 million in 2011.

Meanwhile, global iPhone shipments are expected to rise to 53.5 million
in 2011, more than double the 25.1 million in 2009.

By 2011, Apple will become the world's second-largest purchaser of
semiconductors through direct and indirect channels.

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