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Author 丨 Shi Hanxu
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A few days ago, Apple announced US $ 10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to fund COPAN Diagnostics to expand its sample collection products (That’s what we call swabs) and the production of transport components to cope with the spread of new coronavirus.
At the same time, Apple is assisting COPAN in purchasing industrial equipment, designing new factories, recruiting people, and waiting for COPAN to move in and start construction.
Although compared with the advanced manufacturing fund ’s total plate of $ 5 billion, $ 10 million is only a small number, but this is Apple ’s first investment in an enterprise outside its supply chain.
Previously, the Apple Advanced Manufacturing Fund had made a total of three expenditures, totaling $ 1 billion in investment in precision glass supplier Corning, laser chip supplier Finisar, and carbon-free aluminum supplier Elysis. Elysis only got $ 10 million.
And COPAN is not in Apple ’s supply chain, and the production of products that look like cotton swabs does not seem to have any technical content. This can’t help but make people more curious, why this company makes Apple favor.
The swab is missing, COPAN supplement
On March 16, the US Air Force used C-17 transport aircraft to transport 500,000 swabs for new coronavirus detection from Italy to Tennessee, USA
At a subsequent press conference, the US Air Force general explained that the swabs were produced by an American company. meaning