Shifting electronics supply chain helps propel Starlux A350 freighter buy

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SINGAPORE — In announcing the purchase of five Airbus A350 freighters, Starlux Airlines chairman K.W Chang said that the barely four-year-old Taiwanese airline is adding dedicated cargo operations on the back of an expected boom in demand for IT components and electronics like those made by Apple, AMD and Nvidia.

Within the Airbus purchase, which came alongside a fresh order for three more A330neo aircraft, lies an airline seeing the shifting winds of the global economy as the most important companies on earth strategically diversify their supply chains amid a rapid chill in new business investment within mainland China. 

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company foundry, the highly strategic crown jewel of the global information economy, produces chips and other components for the likes of AMD, Nvidia, and Intel, as well as Apple’s phones, tablets, laptops and wearables. Apple’s public list of suppliers includes 42 different companies manufacturing components in Taiwan. 

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Jon Ostrower
Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current, where he leads coverage of the global aerospace and aviation industries. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Mr. Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network’s global coverage of the business and operations of aviation. Mr. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and a half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C., he covered Boeing, aviation safety, and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Mr. Ostrower was editor of FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. He is also an instructor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering's Aviation Safety and Security program. Mr. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.
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