Major Apple assembler Foxconn Technology Group has replaced the chief of its iPhone assembly business after a tumultuous year in China, highlighting the company’s efforts to ready a new generation of leaders.
Michael Chiang was first identified in his new role at Taiwan-based Foxconn’s annual year-end party on Sunday, succeeding longtime leader Wang Charng-yang as head of the division responsible for iPhone assembly. Chiang was recently promoted to chief of the A business group as Wang steps back to focus on a role on the board, according to people familiar with the matter.
The appointment is part of efforts by Chairman Young Liu of Foxconn’s flagship unit Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to elevate younger executives to maintain the company’s supply chain leadership in the face of growing competition from Chinese contenders. Foxconn may also face new rivals in India as Apple seeks to further diversify its production footprint following pandemic-related supply snarls and draconian restrictions that wrought havoc on device output in China.
Chiang is a longtime Foxconn manager who has helped the company meet the high standards Apple requires, according to one of the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters… In [a] 2021 interview, Chiang said… “For Chinese Android phones, we only have to assign 100 workers per production line, but we need 1,200 for the iPhone,” Chiang said, underlining Apple’s exacting demands.
MacDailyNews Take: Foxconn’s problem is the CCP. That’s not changing. Android’s problem is that it’s an inferior, low-margin pretend iPhone assembled to a shoddy standard. Always has been. Always will be.
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