2023-06-13 11:30:00
Apparently, the first Mac Pro with proprietary processor Apple has a good part of its components also manufactured in the thailand. This is what the product label indicates, which can already be accessed on a registry file at the Federal Communications Commission (Federal Communications Commissionor FCC) of the United States.
The label indicates that the product was designed in California, but that it is a “Product of Thailand” and had its assembly completed in the USA — which takes away the exclusivity of the latter with regard to the manufacturing process of the computer.
From 2013 until at least 2019, the year in which the last model of Mac Pro with an Intel processor was launched, the machine’s label indicated that it was designed in California and assembled in the USA — with this last step done by the company Flex, in the state from Texas.
As the Mac Pro with Apple Silicon differs virtually nothing from its predecessor in terms of design — only its innards now have the M2 Ultra chip —, the question remains regarding which parts of the computer are still produced in the USA.
In any case, the change makes the Mac Pro manufacturing process geographically closer to that of other Mac lines, which are produced and assembled in Asian countries.
The manufacture of the Mac Pro in Thailand still, in a way, confirms a recent rumor that Apple would be considering transferring the manufacture of Macs — more specifically, MacBooks — from China to its Asian neighbor.
Apparently, it is not just portable computers that are the targets of this change…
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