Per Framingham, MA-based IDC or International Data Corporation’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, India smartphone market shipped 142.3 million units in 2018, 14.5% year-on-year growth. Upasana Joshi, associate research manager, Client Devices, IDC India, adds: --> Shipments of the online-exclusive portfolios of Xiaomi, Honor, Realme, Asus, OnePlus among others, further...
Pegatron to Move Some Apple Manufacturing to India
Apple's contract manufacturing firm, Taiwan-based Pegatron Corporation is planning to to open production plants in three new countries: India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. This move comes after Foxconn, one of the primary contract manufacturers for Apple revealed its plans to expand outside China. I had written about this last month. Pegatron...
Indian Professionals Favor American Employers, Overwhelmingly
Multinational organizations, especially American ones, continue to dominate the list of technology companies that are the best workplaces as rated by the Indian employees on the job-site Indeed. Adobe Inc. has emerged as the best technology company to work for in India, followed by computer gaming company NVIDIA and Microsoft...
Apple's India Profit Increases 140 Percent for 2018
According to regulatory documents filed by the company, at $137 million Apple’s India unit registered a 140 percent jump in its net profit for the fiscal ended March 2018. For the previous year, Apple India had registered a net profit of $50 million. During the company’s earnings call in July,...
Qualcomm to Set Up Campus in India
Semiconductors and telecom major Qualcomm will invest $400 million to set up its largest facility outside its headquarters at San Diego, CA., at Hyderabad in India's southern state of Telangana. Phase-1 of the project will include a built-up space of 1.7 million square feet to house 10,000 employees. Qualcomm already...
Is China Losing Ground to India in Manufacturing?
In an article written in Chinese by Wang Xinxi and published by Sina Tech, the author shares reasons why India is starting to threaten China's dominance in some parts of the manufacturing sector. In the mobile phone manufacturing business, global players such as Samsung, Apple, Foxconn, have invested in India-based...