News HP to Relocate PC Assembly to Thailand, Mexico, and Vietnam: Report

[Admin]

HP to shift production of millions of PCs from China to Thailand, Mexico, and Vietnam.

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[vern72]

China's rising costs?!? Big corporations are running out of places to find cheap labor!

 

[magbarn]

Will this result in HP finally putting in decent screens on their laptops for once? Out of Lenovo, Dell, and Asus, HP puts the crappiest, dimmest, off color screens in their laptops. I'm bitter because of the company I work for only provides HPs for their employees.

 

[tamalero]

China's rising costs?!? Big corporations are running out of places to find cheap labor!

no, they just want never-ending lower costs.
Aka when the "low costs" becomes the norm after x amount of years.. greed takes over and they demand even more.

 

[bill001g]

It is could also be a project they started back in the covid days showed them that if china shuts down they have no product to sell. Large companies like HP move extremely slowly. It is still likely all about costs but even if say it cost more to manufacture in mexico they at least have a product to sell if one the other sites is shut down.

 

[usertests]

China's rising costs?!? Big corporations are running out of places to find cheap labor!

There's plenty of places. It can take a while to develop them up to the point of being a go-to manufacturing location.

no, they just want never-ending lower costs.
Aka when the "low costs" becomes the norm after x amount of years.. greed takes over and they demand even more.

Or they want to disentangle before "geopolitical tensions" hit their apex with their supply chains shut down and assets seized.

 

[gg83]

Every company that has international sales should source labor from multiple geographic locations. It's smart and spreads the money around.

 

[tamalero]

Every company that has international sales should source labor from multiple geographic locations. It's smart and spreads the money around.

Except in most cases, these are used to replace the high priced workers in the main country they are from.
Thats how China rose anyway.. everyone wanted "cheap labour quick".