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Jed Rothwell's avatar

I was surprised to find that people actually do screw in tiny screws into cell phones. I thought that would be fully automated. I am pretty sure it will soon be automated in China, and it would be if the industry is re-shored.

Assembling and testing cell phones is a lot more complicated than you might have thought. See minutes 6 to 7 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDO1rPFQ1Y

It would take years to learn to do it in the U.S. Intel's recent fiasco trying to set up chip factories in the U.S. shows how things like this can fail.

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