Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 600 people, devastated the Thai economy and caused one of the most significant supply chain disruptions to the computer industry in a generation.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 18, 2011 at 10:03 am PT
Very thrilled. Chipmaker TI does something that chip companies practically never do: It says how happy it is to have Amazon as a customer.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 21, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
Flooding in Thailand has hammered one of the world’s two major manufacturers of hard drives especially hard. Early estimates say supply this quarter could drop by nearly a third.
Arik Hesseldahl in Mobile on October 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm PT
Research house IHS iSuppli has opened up Apple’s iPhone 4S to see who’s in and out among its suppliers and to estimate how much it cost to make.
Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 19, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers and its assembler in Asia for the trial production of its next generation iPad from October, people familiar with the situation say, as it looks to stay ahead of the competition in the fast-growing tablet computer market.
John Paczkowski in News on May 12, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
The March earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused little in the way of supply chain troubles for Apple in its last quarter. The next may be different.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 26, 2011 at 8:55 am PT
Apple may not have any particular plans for its cash abundance beyond the preservation of capital, but it’s not letting the $65.8 billion it had on hand at the end of the first quarter burn a hole in its pocket, either. The company continues to use it for supply chain investments, locking up component resources in an increasingly competitive market.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 21, 2011 at 4:05 am PT
If Apple’s second-quarter iPad 2 sales missed Wall Street expectations, it wasn’t because of supply-chain troubles following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Remarkably, those catastrophes didn’t disrupt the company’s component supplies in the second quarter at all.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 28, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The latest Nintendo handheld gaming machine hit the market in North America and Europe this weekend. As usual, research firm IHS iSuppli rushed to tear it apart and look inside. What they found was a device that looks to deliver a tidy profit.
