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Spatial Distribution - Key Locations
Headquarters & R&D centre based together at Apple Park Cupertino, California
Main products designed in Silicon Valley, California
Components used in their products are sourced from companies based globally
Wifi Chips may originate from any one of 20 countries in the Americas, Europe or Asia
Most Apple employees are based in MEDCs, predominantly in the US
Reflects the high-tech, knowledge-intensive nature of its business
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Spatial Distribution - Data Centres
2 in California at Newark and Santa Clara
2 further west at Reno, Nevada and Prineville, Oregon
1 on the eastern coast at Maiden, North Carolina
A further large centre is planned for the mid-2020s at Wuakee, Iowa
The data centres are to better serve North American users of iMessage and Siri
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Spatial Distribution - Employment:
Employs
6000
people at Austin,
Texas
Plans to expand to employ a further
10,000
Spatial Distribution - Production:
Assembly of Apple’s main products is outsourced to partner companies
Foxconn
&
Pegatron.
Both
Taiwanese
tech companies
Foxconn is Apple’s
longest-running
partner
Based in Foxconn City,
Shenzen
near
Hong Kong.
Impacts - Ireland:
Apple has its European, Middle Eastern &
African
headquarters in
Cork
, Ireland, where it employs 6,000 workers on its iMac production line.
Cork also acts as the
global transport logistics
hub for Apple, organising shipments of assembled
iPhones
and iPads globally.
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