A crackdown on energy usage in China has seen a number of key Apple suppliers halt production, according to a new report today.
One supplier to both Apple and Tesla said that it had been forced to suspend production from Sunday until this coming Friday, while another said it would need to cease production in two cities until the end of the month.
“We expect to arrange production on the weekends or in the upcoming holidays [next month] to meet customers’ needs” []. Unimicron Technology, a major print circuit-board maker and key Apple supplier, said its subsidiaries in the Chinese cities of Suzhou and Kunshan in Jiangsu Province also needed to stop production from Sunday noon till the end of the month.
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