Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand as the corporate continues to increase its manufacturing footprint exterior of China, Nikkei reported on Thursday.
Suppliers who’re taking part in these talks have present manufacturing complexes in Thailand for different shoppers and are discussing attainable meeting and manufacturing of parts and modules for MacBooks, sources from three suppliers immediately concerned in the conversations with Apple advised Nikkei.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Apple and its key suppliers have been shifting manufacturing away from China as they search to keep away from a possible hit to enterprise from mounting Sino-US commerce frictions.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Apple took the most important hit as international shipments of non-public computer systems (PCs) fell by 29 p.c in the primary quarter of 2023 due to weak demand, extra stock and a deteriorating macroeconomic local weather.
In the report printed Sunday, the International Data Corporation (IDC) mentioned international PC shipments numbered 56.9 million in the primary quarter of this yr, down from 80.2 million in the identical interval final yr.
Of the highest 5 PC firms analysed in the report, Apple’s Q1 shipments noticed the most important drop of 40.5 p.c from the identical interval in 2022, with Dell Technologies coming in second with a drop of 31 p.c.
In February, Apple reported that gross sales of its Mac computer systems, which had boomed through the wave of working from residence through the pandemic, declined 29 p.c YoY to $7.7 billion (roughly Rs. 63,083 crore) in their most up-to-date quarter.
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