Apple Research to be Augmented by New Japanese Factory

California-based Apple, the producer of consumer favorites like the iPad and iPhone, has announced that they will invest in a $1.4 billion dollar manufacturing facility in Yokohama Japan in a deal with Japan Display. Japan Display, a company trying to become the primary display supplier to Apple, will boost LCD capacity by 20% with screens being produced from the new megafactory by 2016. Apple research and development efforts will also partially be conducted at the new facility.

This move is seen as the initial steps toward an ambitious plan developed by IBM, Apple and Japan Post for a pilot program that will deliver 5 million iPads to elderly Japanese citizens by 2020 to help them maintain communication with friends, family and medical professionals in an age of technology that is quickly leaving them in coughing in a wake of digital dust.

While Apple has other similar research and manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom, China and Israel, the Yokohama factory will be Apple’s biggest facility in all of Asia.

Source: Cult of Mac

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