Topic: Apple

Apple's revamped iPad Pro touts a focus on portability, significant display improvements, the powerful M4 chip, and expanded AI capabilities while aiming to remain the preferred tool for creatives and demanding users.

Tim Cook meets with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, signaling a deepening partnership and potential for Vietnam to become a key player in Apple's sustainable supply chains.

Apple CEO Tim Cook's surprise visit to Vietnam signals the company's deepening commitment to the country as both a production center and a growing consumer market. The visit echoes similar attention from other tech leaders like Bill Gates and underscores Vietnam's increasing attractiveness as a tech hub.

State President meets with Apple CEO in San Francisco and discusses Vietnam’s role in the tech giant’s development strategy.

New leasing comes as Apple contractor continues to diversify production away from China.

Tech giant believed to have tapped its leading supplier, Foxconn, to start making MacBooks in Vietnam from next May.

Analysts at JP Morgan have said that Apple is currently preparing to make Vietnam and India important manufacturing hubs globally for the Group. In the context of global supply chain re-establishment taking place on a scale not seen in decades, JP Morgan estimates that Vietnam will contribute 20 per cent of the total production of iPad and Apple Watch, 5 per cent of MacBook, and 65 per cent of AirPods by 2025.

The CEO of the Mobile World Joint Stock Company (MWG) Doan Van Hieu Em told VnEconomy that he is supremely confident that Vietnam will be recognized by Apple as a tier 1 market after looking at the steps Apple has taken in recent times. This doesn’t stop at the relocation of production lines from abroad to Vietnam and investment expansions in the country, but also appears in the number of financial statements made by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

According to a source from Nikkei Asia, Apple is in discussions to produce the Apple Watch and MacBook computers in Vietnam for the first time. This is part of diversifying production lines away from China.