“Long known as a master of the supply chain for overseas components, Apple has reportedly out-muscled the competition for yet another crucial element of its products: unibody metal notebook chassis,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“Intel and its partner PC makers have been “aggressively searching” for new materials to build chassis for the chipmaker’s thin-and-light ‘Ultrabook’` design,” Marsal reports. “According to DigiTimes, companies have been forced to seek alternatives because Apple already controls most of the ‘significantly limited’ capacity.”
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Marsal reports, “The most popular choice for Ultrabook designs is said to be magnesium-aluminum chassis, ideal for creating a notebook less than 0.8-inch thick. But a unibody magnesium-aluminum chassis requires expensive ‘CNC lathes,’ of which capacity is constrained… [due to supplying] unibody shells for notebooks to Apple.”
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