{"id":483,"date":"2006-12-05T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/05\/apple-wants-total-supplier-security\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:13:14","slug":"apple-wants-total-supplier-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/05\/apple-wants-total-supplier-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple wants total supplier security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the obvious conclusion of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/bits_chips\/a20061201PD204.html\">minor news<\/a> that may attract the attention of the engineers among us: Apple now has no less than seven suppliers for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) of its iPod (they expect a strong growth in 2007):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tripod Technology,<\/li>\n<li>Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC),<\/li>\n<li>Unimicron Technology,<\/li>\n<li>Compeq Manufacturing,<\/li>\n<li>Wus Printed Circuit<\/li>\n<li>APCB<\/li>\n<li>Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In some industries, <em>second sourcing<\/em> to secure a supply merely means to add a second redundant supplier (its better to have two malls near your home, rather than only one). Apple pushes this strategy to the extreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the obvious conclusion of this minor news that may attract the attention of the engineers among us: Apple now has no less than seven suppliers for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) of its iPod (they expect a strong growth in 2007): Tripod Technology, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,43,30,39,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-culture","category-enterprise","category-music","category-p2p","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}