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Encyclopedia > Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry
Type Public(TSEC: 2317)(SEHK: 2038)
Founded 1974
Headquarters Taipei, Taiwan
Key people Terry Guo (Chairman/President)
Industry Electronics
Revenue $28.3 billion USD (2005)
Operating income $1.5 billion USD (2005)
Net income $1.3 billion USD (2005)
Employees 63,670
Website foxconnchannel.com

Foxconn (富士康) is the trade name of the Taiwanese firm Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (Ltd.) (LSE: HHPD) (NASDAQHNHPF). Foxconn is one of the largest manufacturers of electronics and computer components worldwide, and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Although sometimes referred to as an Original Equipment Manufacturer, Foxconn would be more accurately described as an Original Design Manufacturer. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod and the iPhone for Apple Computer; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer retailers Dell, Inc. and Hewlett Packard; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo, and cell phones for Motorola.[1][2] Image File history File links Honhai. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TSEC) is a financial institution, located in Taiwan, Republic of China, located at 17 Po-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. ... The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Traditional Chinese: , also 港交所; abbreviated as HKEX ; SEHK: 0388) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Region City seat Xinyi District (信義區) Government  - Mayor Hau Lung-bin (KMT)1 E9 Area  - City 271. ... Terry Gou (郭台銘, pinyin: Guō Tāimíng, also TM Kou) is a tycoon. ... This article is about the engineering discipline. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... This article is about the history, geography, and people of the island known as Taiwan. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... This article is about the machine. ... Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to containment-based re-branding, namely where one company uses a component of another company within its product, or sells the product of another company under its own brand. ... An Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) is a company which manufactures a product which ultimately will be branded by another firm for sale. ... The Mac mini is the smallest desktop computer marketed by Apple Inc. ... iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001. ... The correct title of this article is . ... Apple Inc. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Dell Inc. ... It has been suggested that HP ProLiant be merged into this article or section. ... PS2 redirects here. ... The PlayStation 3 , trademarked PLAYSTATION®3,[3] commonly abbreviated PS3) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment; successor to the PlayStation 2. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Motorola Inc. ...


The company was founded in 1974 as a manufacturer of plastic products (notably connectors) by Terry Gou, who remains its CEO. It has been listed on the Taiwanese stock exchange since 1991. It is Taiwan's largest private company, with a revenue of US$13 billion in 2004 and US$40.6 billion in 2006.[3][2] Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Terry Gou (郭台銘, pinyin: Guō Táimíng, also TM Kou) is a Taiwanese tycoon. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TSEC) is a financial institution, located in Taiwan, Republic of China, located at 17 Po-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ...


Foxconn mainly manufactures in China; in 2007 it employed 450,000 people there and was China's largest exporter. The company opened its first manufacturing plant in China in 1988, a factory in Shenzhen that is now the company's largest, with 270,000 employees.[2][4] Beginning in 1994, Foxconn purchased development centres in the United States and Japan. The years 1998 and 1999 saw the establishment of additional manufacturing plants in Great Britain and the USA. As of 2007, the company and its subsidiaries owned plants in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, India and Vietnam.[2] Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern China. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...

Contents

Products

Cases

Foxconn makes a range of computer cases designed to appeal to system builders.


Apple Inc. vertical integrated with Foxconn in 1986.


Motherboards

Foxconn designs and manufactures several different motherboards, with many being sold to OEM distributors such as Dell and HP. Starting in 2003 the company has produced retail boards under its own brand name.


Graphics cards

In March 2006, Foxconn branched into the manufacture of graphics cards, starting with a GeForce 7900GTX (branded as PX7900GTX) at clock speeds of 550 MHz / 1320 MHz for the core and memory respectively, but with intentions to market both NVIDIA and ATi boards. Foxconn also released the very popular Foxconn 7900GS, one of the most popular graphics cards on the market. A graphics/video/display card/board/adapter is a computer component designed to convert the logical representation of visual information into a signal that can be used as input for a display medium. ... The GeForce 7 Series is the seventh generation of NVIDIAs GeForce graphics cards. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (pronounced IPA: ) is a U.S. corporation specializing in the manufacture of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs) technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and handhelds. ... ATI may stand for: ATI Technologies Inc. ...


Computer cooling solutions

Foxconn manufactures stock heat sink fans for some AMD processors, including but not limited to their K8N Dual Core Opterons. CPU heat sink with fan attached A heat sink (or heatsink) is an environment or object that absorbs and dissipates heat from another object using thermal contact (either direct or radiant). ... A dual-core CPU combines two independent processors and their respective caches and cache controllers onto a single silicon chip, or integrated circuit. ... The Opteron is AMDs x86 server processor line, and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). ...


Consoles

Foxconn is the OEM for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii.


Apple Products

Foxconn is one of the OEMs for iPod nanos, MacBook Pros, and the iPhone. The iPod nano is a mid-range iPod portable media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. ... The MacBook Pro is a line of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple for the professional market. ... The correct title of this article is . ...


Computers

PCA's and Chassis.


Cell Phones

Foxconn OEMs Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson cell phones.


Cell phones are produced in the WLBG Foxconn division. (WLBG = Wireless Business Group)


Foxconn produces Nokia phonesets in Hungary at the industrial park in Komarom, next to Nokia's central European factory.


Criticism

In June 2006, allegations of Foxconn operating sweatshop facilities came to light as reported by Mail that were later denied by Foxconn.[5][6] Apple launched an investigation into such claims.[7] The result was that the sweatshop claims were unfounded but at peak production times some of the employees were working more hours than Apple's acceptable "Code of Conduct" limit of 60 hours, and 25% of the time workers did not get at least one day off each week[1]. These same workers complained there was not enough overtime in off peak periods. Apple Inc. ...


Although admitted it makes workers do an extra 80 hours overtime per month while the local labor law only permits 36 hours[2], Foxconn are now suing the journalists (Wang You and Weng Bao of China Business News). The demand was for $3.77 million originally and have lodged a successful Chinese court ruling to have the journalists' assets frozen. [8] Many think the astronomical demands and the court ruling were absurd.[9] Reporters Without Borders sent a letter to Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs to implore Foxconn to drop the case [10]. Later Foxconn reduced the demand to a symbolic 1 yuan (12 U.S. cents), withdrew the request to freeze the journalists' personal assets, and initiated legal proceedings to sue their employer China Business News[3]. Many have heralded these turn of events as evidence of mass media and negative publicity forcing the hand of big business; leading them to a more appropriate course of action.[11] Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is a French origin international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, founded by its current general-secretary, Robert Menard. ... Apple Inc. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ...


Foxconn tapped Indiana’s manufacturing labor force when they opened a computer manufacturing facility for Compaq in May 2000. Initially promising, the facility was plagued by high turnover rate and quality issues. Management met in December 2000 and agreed to close the facility by June 2001. Remaining manufacturing for Compaq was transferred to Houston, TX, and Fullerton, CA. After Hewlett Packard acquired Compaq, Foxconn agreed to open manufacturing again in Indianapolis, IN starting on May 2003, which later transitioned to Plainfield, IN in early 2006.[12] Many employees that worked for Foxconn’s Indianapolis plant in May 2000 were called upon to return, but a significant fraction refused. Those that did return would soon leave citing poor management, specifically referring to the ineptitude of the plant manager, Ke Lan, and little opportunities for professional growth.


On October 25, 2006, Hendricks County Sheriff’s department were called to escort and arrest several employees from the Plainfield facility, including shipping supervisor Phillip Maiden[13] pending further investigation of the high dollar value of missing HP computers. Charges were filed but later dismissed with prejudice. Mr. Maiden was credited with time served.


References

  1. ^ "Inside Apple's iPod Factories", MacWorld website, June 12, 2006
  2. ^ a b c d The Forbidden City of Terry Gou, The Wall Street Journal, 11 August 2007
  3. ^ "Foxconn retains its title as Taiwan’s largest privately held company", Digitimes, January 11, 2005
  4. ^ Google Map of Hon Hai's famous factory in Shenzhen, cf maps in WSJ article
  5. ^ "iPod City: inside Apple's iPod factories" AppleInsider, 12 June, 2006
  6. ^ "Foxconn: iPod sweatshop claims a 'vicious attack'", AppleInsider, June 19, 2006
  7. ^ "Apple begins audit on iPod sweatshop claims", AppleInsider, June 20, 2006
  8. ^ "Foxconn sues Chinese journalists over iPod factory story" ilounge, 2006
  9. ^ Shenzhen court ruling on Foxconn case "absurd": experts Xinhua, 2006
  10. ^ Apple Computer urged to intercede for two reporters who exposed bad conditions at supplier’s plants, Reporters Without Borders
  11. ^ "iPod Factory Just Kidding About Destroying Reporters' Lives", Techdirt, 2006
  12. ^ "Taiwan-Invested Q-Edge Expands Operation in Indiana"
  13. ^ "Hendricks County Superior Court No 2"

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ... Xinhua (Chinese:新华通讯社/新華通訊社, pinyin:xīnhuá tōngxùnshè) is also the short for Xinhua News Agency Xinhua (Chinese:新化县/新化縣, pinyin:xīnhuà xiàn) is a county in Hunan,China, See Xinhua...

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