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6 years ago, the number of Apple production facilities in Vietnam was behind Malaysia and the Philippines, how has this number changed now?

According to Apple's latest supplier list, the number of facilities and production locations of Apple's top 200 suppliers increased in 2022, mainly in China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and India. However, the number of Apple manufacturing facilities in the US has decreased from 74 facilities (2021) to 62 (2022); in Korea decreased from 42 facilities (2021) to 36 (2022).
"This shows that Apple is capable of preparing for a global manufacturing ecosystem," DigiTimes assessed.
DigiTimes said that the number of production facilities of Apple suppliers in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been increasing in recent years. Specifically, 2016, Southeast Asia only had 94 production facilities for Apple. The country with the highest number is Malaysia, leading Southeast Asia with 23 production bases. The second and third places are Thailand and the Philippines, respectively, with the number of production facilities 19. At this time, Apple's production facilities in Vietnam are only 18, ranking fourth in Southeast Asia.


However, by 2022, the total number of production facilities of Apple suppliers in Southeast Asia will have increased to 123. Accordingly, the number of Apple production facilities in Southeast Asian countries has also changed significantly.
Specifically, with the number of factories increasing to 28, Thailand has become the place with the largest production facilities for Apple suppliers in Southeast Asia. With 27 facilities, Vietnam has risen to second place in the region regarding the number of Apple production facilities. Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines follow it with the number of production facilities at 25, 21 and 19, respectively.
Worldwide, in 2022, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are among the top 10 places with the largest number of production facilities for Apple suppliers, with the largest number of facilities in the world. Production is 28, 27, 25, 21, and 19, respectively, and ranks from 7-10, respectively. The top 3 places with the largest Apple production facilities worldwide include China, Japan and the United States.
In addition, DigiTimes also said that many China-based manufacturers had joined Apple's list of top 200 suppliers, including Consumer HK Holdco II Limited, Bichamp Cutting Technology, Shenzhen Forceblack Technology, Sunny Optical and Zhuhai CosMX Battery.
In India, Apple added Molex, Onsemi and Shenzhen Everwin Prevision Technology to its top 200 list of suppliers, excluding Wistron. It is known that Wistron is in talks to sell its iPhone production business to Tata. Although Tata has begun assembling the iPhone SE and trial production of the iPhone 15, it must be included because it only reveals the top 200 suppliers. Apple's.

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