Google Pixel 8 Make In India Plans To Start From Q2 2024: Report – News18

Google is about to start out manufacturing its Pixel smartphones in India and to do this it has requested suppliers to start manufacturing by the subsequent quarter, or Q2, on the earliest, a media report mentioned on Thursday.

According to Nikkei Asia, citing sources, this provide chain technique is a part of Google’s bold aim of delivery over 10 million Pixel telephones this 12 months, after delivery round 10 million models for the primary time in 2023 amid a worldwide financial slowdown.

This transfer underlines the tech large’s willpower to additional diversify its provide chain away from China and seize the rising Indian smartphone market.

At first, the corporate will deal with the manufacturing of its excessive-finish Pixel 8 Pro within the southern a part of India, with manufacturing prone to start within the April-June quarter. After this, manufacturing of Pixel 8 will likely be began within the northern a part of the nation in the course of this 12 months, the report talked about.

In October final 12 months, Google introduced plans to fabricate Pixel smartphones in India, with the primary mannequin of the Pixel 8 coming to market in 2024.

As per IDC knowledge, the Indian smartphone market grew 1 per cent to 146 million models in 2023, with the second half of the 12 months seeing an 11 per cent enhance over the earlier 12 months.

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