iPhone assembly

Apple is planning to increase the proportion of iPhone units produced in India, according to details shared by TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a new blog post on Thursday, the analyst states that the Cupertino company is also working on developing the iPhone 17 — expected to launch in global markets in 2025 — in India starting in the second half of next year. Meanwhile, the company's production scale in two regions in China is expected to decline considerably in 2024.In a Medium post, Kuo stated that…

Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate, is close to an agreement to acquire an Apple supplier's factory as soon as August, marking the first time a local company would move into the assembly of iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter.A takeover of the Wistron factory in southern Karnataka state, potentially valued at more than $600 million (roughly Rs. 4,900 crore), would cap about a year of negotiations, said the people, asking not to be named as the matter is private. The facility employs more than…

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will be assembled in India by the Tata Group, according to a recent report. Apple could gain a fourth assembler in the country ahead of the launch of its next generation of handsets that are expected to debut in the second half of 2023 as the successors to last year's iPhone 14 series. Tata is reportedly expected to get small orders from the Cupertino company, and assemble the non-Pro models in India.A recent report by market research firm TrendForce states that the Tata Group will receive 5…

Apple Inc's iPhones will soon be assembled at another site in the southern Indian state of Karnataka and 300 acres have been aside to set up a factory, the state government said on Friday. Bloomberg News had earlier reported that Apple partner Foxconn Technology Group planned to invest about $700 million in the Karnataka site to ramp up local production. The state's investment promotion division said in a tweet that the move would generate 100,000 employment in the next 10 years. Apple and Foxconn did not…

Karnataka's Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar announced plans to build a 300-acre facility to assemble Apple phones, with the expected creation of one lakh employment. According to a tweet by Chandrasekhar, Apple's planned 300-acre facility in Karnataka would be where iPhones are assembled. Karnataka CM Bommai said: "Apple phones to be built in the state soon. Apart from creating about 100,000 jobs, it will create a whole lot…