Apple has considerably elevated its manufacturing of iPhone fashions in India, accounting for nearly 7 p.c of its whole iPhone manufacturing, up from 1 p.c in 2021, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The firm assembled greater than $7 billion (roughly Rs. 57,396 crore) price of iPhone fashions in the nation in the final fiscal yr, the report mentioned.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The Cupertino, California primarily based tech large can also be reportedly in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand as the corporate continues to develop its manufacturing footprint exterior of China.
Suppliers who’re collaborating in these talks have present manufacturing complexes in Thailand for different purchasers and are discussing attainable meeting and manufacturing of elements and modules for MacBooks, sources from three suppliers instantly concerned in the conversations with Apple informed Nikkei.
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.
Last month, it was reported that Taiwanese contract producer Foxconn had gained an order to make AirPods for Apple and deliberate to construct a manufacturing facility in India to supply the wi-fi earphones.
The deal will see Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and assembler of round 70 p.c of all iPhones, turn into an AirPods provider for the primary time and underlines efforts by the important thing Apple provider to additional diversify manufacturing away from China. AirPods are presently made by a spread of Chinese suppliers.
One supply mentioned Foxconn will make investments greater than $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,650 crore) in the brand new India AirPods plant in the southern Indian state of Telangana. It wasn’t instantly clear how a lot the AirPods order can be price.
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