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You'd think it was a trick question — Taiwan, TSMC, obviously. But that's one link in a chain of five: one company designs the chip, another fabricates it, a third packages it, a fourth solders it onto a board, and a fifth puts its name on the box. We traced all sixteen — six chip designers, ten board brands — to their headquarters, research sites and factories. Intel publishes every fab it owns. Sapphire publishes no address anywhere, in any language. Where the trail stops, we say so.
ARM processors power over 99% of the world's smartphones — yet the architecture was born in a tiny UK startup in 1978 - Acorn Computers with just a dozen engineers and a BBC Micro. This article traces ARM's full journey: from its origins as an in-house chip project, through the landmark 1990 joint venture with Apple and VLSI Technology, to the licensing model that quietly became the foundation of modern computing.
This “Where is it made?” list includes companies that manufacture and/or design CPUs. Companies like Intel and AMD design their own CPUs, while others, like Apple, create custom CPUs but have them made by specialized manufacturers.
Laptops don’t just appear on shelves—they’re the product of sprawling global networks. This isn't a usual article; it is an information cluster that maps out those networks, each brand’s roots, production partners, and innovation centers. So let's take a look inside Big Tech’s Laptop Supply Chains.
