Tata Group is close to taking over a major Wistron plant in southern India in a deal that would give the country its first homegrown iPhone…
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India uses generous subsidies, hefty import taxes to woo Apple suppliers
India is gaining more and more of tech colossus Apple’s supply chain business thanks to a carrot and stick approach…
Apple reportedly seeks to triple iPhone assembly in India over the next two years
In order to diversify production out of problematic China, Apple is looking to triple its production of iPhones assembled in India …
Chinese Apple suppliers given priority for factory restarts in Shanghai
As economic pains from the COVID policies grew, China has been pushing to resume factory operations, with Apple suppliers given priority for…
Foxconn iPhone factory in India temporarily shut over rats, worms in food, crowded dorms
Six women who worked at the Foxconn iPhone assembly factory in India near Chennai described rats, worms in food, crowded dorms, and more…
Apple puts supplier Wistron on probation; no new business after India plant violence
Apple has put supplier Wistron on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business…
Riot-hit Apple supplier Wistron hired more than it could handle in India
Apple supplier Wistron quadrupled workers in India in only eight months, ramping up production just as Apple began direct online sales…
Apple probes supplier after workers at Wistron plant in India ransack factory
Apple said on Monday the company is investigating whether Taiwan-based contractor Wistron Corp failed to follow supplier guidelines…
Apple profit leaps 267% in India for fiscal 2020
Apple’s net profit for FY20 stood at INR 926.2 Cr in FY20 in India, a 267% growth from INR 262.27 Cr in the preceding fiscal year…
Apple iPhone looks to capture sales during India’s Diwali shopping bonanza
Companies including Apple are releasing almost a hundred smartphone models ahead of India’s Diwali shopping bonanza, a massive…
Trump administration presses tech supply chain to cut ties with China
The Trump administration is making a concerted effort to press non-U.S. suppliers to move production out of China …
iPhone assemblers gain approval for $143 billion India manufacturing plan
Major iPhone assemblers for Apple Inc. were among 16 companies that won approval to manufacture products in India under a plan aimed…
Apple finally ready to make a concerted push in India
After years of treading water, or worse, sinking, Apple is finally ready to make a concerted push into India …
Three top Apple suppliers to commit $900 million to iPhone assembly in India
Three top Apple suppliers plan to invest a total of almost $900 million in India over the next five years to tap into a new Indian plan…
Apple’s new 2020 iPhone SE is assembled in India
Apple’s latest — and most affordable — iPhone, the iPhone SE, is being assembled in India, the company confirmed in an official statement…
iPhone assembler Wistron to hire 10,000 employees in India
Taiwan-based Wistron, one of Apple’s main device assemblers, is expected to start commercial iPhone assembly at its Narasapura plant in India…
Apple iPhone assembler eyes major production shift out of China to India
In a major production shift out of China as part of global business’ efforts to diversify supply chains following the COVID-19 debacle, a contract…
Chinese Apple-assembler Luxshare soars on iPhone assembly deal
As U.S.-China tensions continue to escalate, Apple is set to invite mainland Chinese company Luxshare into the exclusive iPhone assembly club…
Coronavirus speeds Apple assemblers’ plans to move beyond China
COVID-19 is expediting Apple assemblers’ move out of China that has been underway since the President Trump began deploying U.S. import tariffs on China…
iPhone assembler Wistron looks to move 50% of production outside China by 2021
According to Apple iPhone-assembler Wistron chairman Simon Lin, the company is looking to move 50% of production outside China and to significantly grow…
iPhone assembly stops in India as country goes into 21-day lockdown
iPhone assembly has stopped in India due to an order to comply with a 21-day countrywide COVID-19 lockdown ordered by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
India plans to airlift components from China to help local tech industry
India is planning to bolster its growing electronics sector by arranging to airlift components from China, according to government officials…
Apple supplier Wistron to make PCBs for iPhone in new plant in India
Highlighting Apple’s expansion of manufacturing in India, Taiwan’s Wistron Corp plans to assemble printed circuit boards (PCBs) for iPhones in India …
Apple’s new low-cost iPhone starts mass production next month
As Apple looks to address a wider section of the global smartphone market, suppliers are slated to begin assembly of an all-new low-cost iPhone next month…
Apple supplier Foxconn begins iPhone XR assembly in India, iPhone 11 models next to be ‘Made in India’
Apple has begun commercial production of the iPhone XR locally at the Foxconn facility near Chennai, India, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu…
Apple’s data shows a deepening dependence on China as Trump administration’s tariffs loom
Apple Inc’s dependence on China has not lessened by tapping factories in Brazil and India, the company’s supply chain data shows, raising the stakes as U.S. President Trump promises more tariffs…
U.S.-China trade tensions prompt Apple to consider diversifying supply chain out of China
Apple Inc. is asking suppliers to study shifting final assembly of some products out of China, people familiar with the matter said…
Apple is playing Chicken with China. Will Beijing flinch?
Apple has reportedly asked each of its largest suppliers to evaluate the costs to shift between 15% and 30% of its production out of China…
Special team within Apple investigating move of up to 30% of production out of China
A team of between 30 and 40 people at Apple is surveying the company’s major suppliers about the cost implications…
The global system of trade is being realigned; how investors should navigate globalization’s decline
Investors have been on edge as the world’s two largest economies…
Apple supplier Foxconn to begin iPhone X assembly in India; XS and XS Max also planned
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn will begin from July the commercial production…
Apple launches $300 million China Clean Energy Fund
Apple today announced a new first-of-its-kind investment fund in China to connect suppliers…
Report claims Apple’s ‘iPhone SE 2’ built solely in India, launch held up by government
A new report claims that the ‘iPhone SE 2’ is coming at some point after the ‘Field Trip’ event…
Apple shares dip amid report of iPhone production delay
The report comes after several Wall Street analysts have predicted delays for the iPhones…
Apple’s OLED iPhone launch is likely delayed to November, supplier says
Still undecided on the detailed specifications of some hardware and design features…
Apple’s next-gen iPhone to intelligently silence audio notifications
The rumored face-detecting 3D sensor in the iPhone 8 will intelligently silence…
All three of Apple’s new iPhone models – two TFT LCD and one OLED model – have entered volume production
Most component and service suppliers in the iPhone supply chain have reported strong sales for July…
EDN: Production of Apple’s flagship OLED ‘iPhone 8’ delayed to November-December
Yield rates at the two main ODMs, Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron, have not yet reached levels…
Apple supplier confirms new iPhone models will be ‘waterproof’ with wireless charging
iPhone assembler Wistron on Wednesday confirmed that waterproof and wireless charging will be incorporated into the new 5.5-inch iPhones…
India offers tax concessions to Apple to expand production
The tax concessions will be subject to the condition of increasing local value addition over a period of time…
Apple begins manufacturing iPhone SE in India
Apple began manufacturing a small batch of iPhones in India on for the first time on Wednesday…
Latest Kantar data shows why India is so important to Apple
India may be a small market for Apple right now, but the latest Kantar data shows…
