In other tech news Hon Hai (parent of Foxconn) is still negotiating over investing in Sharp.
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"It's not a good idea to be this size, " says Mr. Lee, who is also in charge of building other large factories for Hon Hai.
The Wednesday trip to Foxconn (a subdivision of Hon Hai) was, in part, damage control.
Clearly, Hon Hai wants to be in on the ground floor of that revolution.
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But employees said workers from other facilities, including Hon Hai's factories in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, recently were brought in to help with a large order.
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The Hon Minister provided an overview of how ESD has developed in the Pacific and some of the key work that has been undertaken in Tonga.
Hon Hai's facility in Taiyuan alone employs roughly the same amount of workers that General Motors Co.
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Hon Hai relies heavily on a fairly small number of customers: In the tech industry, a single product line can make or break a company's fortunes and, in turn, the well-being of a supplier.
Among the largest underlying components of XLI, in trading today Honeywell International Incorporated ( NYSE: HON) is up about 1.7%, Emerson Electric Company ( NYSE: EMR) is up about 1.1%, and Cummins Incorporated ( NYSE: CMI) is higher by about 1.1%.
There have also been reports that Hon Hai has asked for a seat on Sharp's board of directors in exchange for the investment, something that the Japanese firm is not seen as too keen to accept.
Because of the sheer number of people it employs, Hon Hai's every move generates huge interest in local newspapers, although the firm itself says little.
Among the largest underlying components of XLI, in trading today Honeywell International, Inc. ( NYSE: HON) is up about 0.8%, Danaher Corp. ( NYSE: DHR) is up about 0.5%, and CSX Corp. ( NYSE: CSX) is lower by about 0.7%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLI, in trading today Honeywell International, Inc. ( NYSE: HON) is off about 0.8%, Boeing Co. ( NYSE: BA) is down about 0.3%, and Emerson Electric Co. ( NYSE: EMR) is lower by about 0.6%.
In my analysis, the biggest contributor to the slowing sales at Hon Hai is the slowing sales growth of iPhones.
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Or it may see in Sharp and its Sakai factory, from which Hon Hai will eventually take half the output, the promise of a technological step up.
White notes that Hon Hai had invested in Sharp earlier this year to secure LCD panels that White contends are intended for production of Apple-branded TVs.
Foxconn, as Hon Hai is also known, has been working on a spate of technologies that could be used in wearable devices, one of these people said.
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