Who Actually Builds Your iPhone?
Your iPhone says designed by Apple in California. Designed, not built: Apple doesn't assemble a single one itself. The chip, the screen, the memory, the camera and the assembly come from other companies, in at least five countries.
We follow the parts of an iPhone 18 Pro: TSMC's 2 nanometer chip in Taiwan, Samsung and LG screens from South Korea, a Sony camera sensor, a surprise modem inside the US Pro Max, and the factories in China and India that put it all together. Plus the part that's quietly pushing the price up: memory, now about a third of what the parts cost.
Chapters
0:00 Designed in California
0:21 Why It Matters to You
0:40 Two Hundred Companies
1:03 The Brain: Taiwan
1:36 The Screen: South Korea
1:51 The Memory: The Expensive Part
2:24 The Camera: Japan and China
2:39 The Modem: A Surprise
3:05 Putting It Together
3:34 So What Does Apple Do?
4:09 Five Countries in Your Pocket
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