Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Foxconn)

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A large share of the world's smartphones, game consoles, and AI servers are assembled by a company most people have never met: Foxconn, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry, the largest contract electronics manufacturer on the planet. Founded in 1974 by Terry Gou with a small equipment workshop, the Taiwanese company now employs hundreds of thousands of people, generates annual revenue above US$200 billion, and assembles products for most of the world's biggest tech brands. Foxconn's real product is manufacturing capability at a scale no competitor can replicate: sprawling campuses in Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, and Chennai that can scale up tens of thousands of workers quickly, vertical integration into components such as connectors and enclosures, and an engineering organization that co-designs products with its customers. It is also diversifying into EV contract manufacturing, semiconductor packaging, and AI server assembly — currently its fastest-growing business. For anyone sourcing electronics, Foxconn is simultaneously the ceiling and the floor: it sets the price-performance benchmark that other EMS companies must beat, and its capacity decisions move the global market for components like connectors, batteries, and displays.

Also known as: Foxconn, Hon Hai

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