Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant, the questionable recipient of billions of dollars in tax subsidies and the focus of several Verge investigations, will produce ventilators with medical gadget firm Medtronic. The collaboration was announced by Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak in an interview with CNBC, who said that Foxconn will be making ventilators based upon its PB-560 style in the next 4 to 6 weeks. Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant was initially announced way back in 2017 as a$10 billion LCD factory. It was identified the” eighth marvel of the world” by PresidentTrump, but Foxconn’s strategies for the site appear to have altered consistently throughout the years. At numerous points, Foxconn has said that it would build a smaller LCD factory, no factory at all, or that it would produce other products like a robotic coffee kiosk. Now, it appears the factory will, in part at least, produce ventilators, after its planned opening next month. Based on Medtronic’s open source ventilator design Medtronic’s CEO was
