ATi will begin 80 nm production at UMC later this year. BenQ is confident it will reach its LCD monitor shipment goal in 2006. According to Foxconn, it does not have an "iPod City" in Suzhou.

An article on the website Macworld.com on June 12 reports on an article which appeared in the British paper The Mail on June 11 describing supposed work abuses in Foxconn (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) factories where iPods are manufactured. The report claims that one of the factories is in Suzhou, but information indicates that Foxconn does not have any production lines there.