Mon. 03/14 – Foxconn Shutting Factories Cause Of Covid. Again.

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, March 14th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Well, what can I tell you? Fox Khan is shutting factories in China again because of the new
0:14.5	omicron outbreak there. Will Apple only give new chips to its prophones going
0:19.9	forward, why people are mad at Twitter now, how people actually watch Netflix now, and
0:25.8	checks notes, a robot goat.
0:29.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.1	Well, this feels... of Tech.
0:39.0	Well, this feels like a Groundhog Day story and not in a good way at all. Fox Khan is halting operations at two of its Shenzhen sites, one of which produces iPhones
0:46.5	after the Chinese government imposed a lockdown in that city until March 20th.
0:51.4	Quoting Bloomberg.
0:53.0	The Taiwanese company also known as Han High Precision Industry has its China headquarters in the
0:57.9	area and a key manufacturing site in Guanlan.
1:01.6	It is suspending operations at the two campuses and has reallocated production
1:05.6	to other sites to reduce impact from the disruption, the company said in a statement.
1:10.7	Fox Khan didn't specify the length of the suspension. The measures from the
1:14.4	Chinese government call for non-essential businesses in Shenzhen to halt until March
1:19.5	20th. While the shutdown may affect production of many of the devices FoxCon makes for Apple and other brands,
1:26.0	demand for electronics typically troughs in the first quarter of every year after the holiday season peak.
1:31.0	On high, the primary assembler of iPhones closed 1% lower on
1:35.1	Monday in Taipei. It expects no quote major impact for now to its finances and
1:40.7	business from the temporary shutdown the company said in a stock
1:43.6	exchange filing late Monday. China reported more than 3,300 COVID-19
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