Foxconn Technology Group

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Group and better known as Foxconn, is a Taiwanese with its headquarters in , , Taiwan. Today, it is the world's largest provider of "Strikes End at Two Chinese Automotive Suppliers". . 2010-07-22.
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Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish and Japanese companies. Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the , iPad, iPhone 11, iPod, , , devices, devices, , , , , , and several CPU sockets, including the socket on some motherboards. As of 2012, Foxconn factories manufactured an estimated 40% of all consumer electronics sold worldwide.
==History==
 established Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. as an electrical components manufacturer in 1974. Foxconn's first manufacturing plant in China opened in , in 1988.
One of the important milestones for Foxconn occurred in 2001 when Intel selected the company to manufacture its Intel-branded motherboards instead of . By November 2007, Foxconn further expanded with an announced plan to build a new US$500 million plant in , Southern China.
Foxconn has been involved in several controversies. In 2010, following a series of at its factory in , Foxconn was criticized by labour activists, who accused the company of providing low wages and allowing employees to work past legal overtime limits.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. named Young Liu its new chairman to replace founder Terry Gou, effective on July 1, 2019. Young Liu was the semiconductor division chief as well as the vice chairman of Foxconn. Analysts said the handover signals the company's future direction, underscoring the importance of semiconductors, together with technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving, after Foxconn’s traditional major business of smartphone assembly has matured. One of the key directions of Foxconn is to focus its strength on semiconductors. It has invested hundreds of millions of yuan in , Guangdong province and in Shandong province to build chip factories since 2018, which Liu mainly promoted. He also served as chairman of the company's chip unit in Zhuhai in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau greater bay area.
==References==
==External links==
*Hon Hai Technology Group official English website
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