Apple Inc is angling to participate in a new scheme to boost India’s exports of computer products, part of what plans to bring iPad tablet manufacturing to the South Asian country according to the Financial Post The new performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, which offers cash-back to manufacturers for exports, will...
Europe Sources iPhones Made in India
Cupertino, CA-based Apple has started to export iPhones to some European markets from India; the total number of iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 models exported so far to Europe are about 100,000 units a month. Initially, Apple's vendor set up iPhone manufacturing in India to avoid import taxes and allow...
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...
Foxconn to Assemble High-End iPhones in India
Apple Inc will assemble its top-end iPhones such as the iPhone X family -- in India at the Chennai unit of Taiwan-based Foxconn from early 2019. Currently, Wistron, another Taiwanese company, makes the lower end Apple models such as iPhone 6S and SE in Bangalore. Foxconn, which also makes phones...
America's Allies Reduce Dependence on China, Turn Toward India
Allies of the U.S. — Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia — are among the countries that are trying to diversify their economies away from dependence on China, whose export-oriented industries are likely to be hurt by the trade war, and are turning toward India. Asian countries "do not have...
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...