Meet The Companies That Make the iPhone

By Matt Lynley

2012-05-27T12:00:00Z

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As a hardware company, Apple faces the nightmarish task of managing a supply chain for all of its devices, including chips, cases and every other part of the phone.

Luckily, Tim Cook is quite good at managing deals and supply chains, and as a result Apple has a supply chain that is literally years ahead of the competition.

Bloomberg has compiled a lot of data about Motorola's suppliers on the Bloomberg terminal. It shows just how important some of those suppliers now are to Googorola.

16. Hitachi, a manufacturer of hard drives, accounts for about 0.79% of Apple's costs of goods sold, according to Bloomberg data.

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15. Apple buys a bunch of parts from Renesas Electronics, a semiconductor manufacturer. Renesas accounts for about 0.95% of Apple's costs of goods sold.

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14. Sumitomo Chemicals develops chemicals and optical materials. It amounts to 1.07% of Apple's costs.

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13. Qualcomm designs chip that let phones tap into a wireless network, and accounts for 1.13% of Apple's costs.

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12. Texas Instruments, another chip-maker, accounts for 1.25% of its costs.

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11. Broadcom, a developer of wireless chips, accounts for 1.31% of Apple's cost of goods sold, according to data from Bloomberg.

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10. SK Hynix manufactures flash memory and RAM. It amounts to about 1.34% of Apple's costs.

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9. Sony makes all sorts of electronics, including televisions and processors. It amounts to 1.4% of Apple's costs.

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8. Steve Wozniak's new company, Fusion-io, is a developer of flash memory technology. It makes up 1.4% of Apple's costs.

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7. Electro Scientific Industries is a supplier of "photonic and laser systems." It makes up 1.93% of Apple's costs.

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6. Google also makes up a fraction of Apple's costs. It accounts for 2.16% of Apple's costs of goods sold.

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5. Quanta is a notebook and electric component manufacturer. It makes up 2.39% of Apple's costs.

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4. Intel, a chip-maker, also accounts for 2.79% of Apple's costs.

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3. Pegatron develops components for electronics, like the iPhone. It makes up 5.27% of Apple's costs.

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2. Samsung, a chip-maker, accounts for 16.68% of Apple's costs.

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1. Foxconn accounts for a whopping 40.86% of Apple's cost of goods sold, according to data from Bloomberg.

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Apple isn't the only one managing a supply chain...

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Check out all the companies that supply Motorola >

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