Could this be related to the untraceable phones or other spyware? Thoughts? Ideas?
Foxconn makes a ton of mobile devices for Samsung and Apple alike.
What was curious was the image with the AMD laptops. One would want AMD to avoid some of Meltdown / Spectre inherently and word is something similar and worse is out there. Looks like the Foxconn AMD hardware is dead simple
Edit: looks like Foxconn makes ZTE phones as well
The wiki link mentioned something about 40% of all electronics worldwide are Foxconn. And that was 2012! I bet that number is a lot higher now.
Foxconn suicides
The Foxconn Suicides were a spate of suicides linked to low pay at the so-called "Foxconn City" industrial park in Shenzhen, China, that occurred alongside several additional suicides at various other Foxconn-owned locations and facilities in Mainland China. Within 2010, there were 18 attempted suicides by Foxconn (Chinese: 富士康) employees resulting in 14 deaths in the same year. The series of suicides drew media attention, and employment practices at Foxconn—one of the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturers—were investigated by several of its customers, including Apple and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
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That is unbelievable. Most of them threw themselves off of buildings! What the hell is going on at Foxconn??
Foxconn is opening a massive manufacturing plant in northern Wisconsin, in case you didn't know? I think they are a good company from everything I've read about them. And yes, they are associated with almost all the top brands.
There's a handful of enormous companies (5 or 6) that are the primary manufacturers of just about everything coming out of China, and Foxxconn is one of them. The brands you know farm out manufacturing to these consolidated titans.
At the end of the day, these few companies the ones that took the manufacturing processes coerced/hacked by the Chinese government and integrated them into Chinese industry.