Meta Pushes Back on Reported Outsourcing of XR Headset Designs

Meta Pushes Back on Reported Outsourcing of XR Headset Designs

Meta Addresses Rumors on Headset Design Contract With Vendor Goertek

Vosworthy. Meta’s dense familiarity with Goertek meanss.

Meta is bringing its smartphone-like to investor Goertek, along with diversifying production away from China, but

Goertek will not be involved in designing Meta’s headsets

A recent report suggested Meta was planning to rely more heavily on manufacturing partner Goertek for headset designs. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has since refuted these claims. Meta maintains complete control over the design process will remain in-house.

While Goertek continues to be a vital partner for Meta, particularly for manufacturing, the company clarifies it’s not taking over design responsibilities.

A tweet by Bosworth directly addresses

### Meta’s Ongoing Relationship with Goertek

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>“Someone is pushing the design rumor hard to multiple outlets and that aspect remains false,” says. “We continue to design our headsets in-house as we have and have no plans to change that. We always partner with our manufacturers to some degree but nothing material is changing there.”

Goertek has

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