According to Bloomberg News, Apple has dramatically increased iPhone model production in India, accounting for about 7% of total iPhone production, up from 1% in 2021.
According to the study, the business produced more than $7 billion (approximately Rs. 57,396 crore) worth of iPhone models in the country during the previous fiscal year.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
The Cupertino, California-based tech giant is also said to be in negotiations with suppliers about producing MacBooks in Thailand, as it seeks to expand its manufacturing footprint outside of China.
vendors involved in these discussions have existing manufacturing complexes in Thailand for other clients and are exploring possible assembly and manufacture of components and modules for MacBooks, according to sources from three vendors directly involved in the discussions with Apple.
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Apple and its main suppliers have been relocating production away from China to avoid a potential business damage from rising Sino-US trade tensions.
Last month, it was claimed that Foxconn, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, had secured an order from Apple to manufacture AirPods and planned to build a factory in India to produce the wireless earphones.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and assembler of about 70% of all iPhones, will become an AirPods supplier for the first time, highlighting the company’s ambitions to diversify production away from China. AirPods are now manufactured by a number of Chinese companies.
According to one source, Foxconn would invest more than $200 million (approximately Rs. 1,650 crore) in the new India AirPods plant in Telangana, a southern Indian state. The value of the AirPods order was not immediately obvious.
