Apple Tasks Second Assembly Partner in India With iPhone 14 Production

Apple has added another assembly partner to its iPhone 14 production roster in India as it seeks to build out its manufacturing base outside of China, reports Bloomberg.

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Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron is set to become the second Apple supplier to produce ‌iPhone 14‌ models in the country behind Foxconn, which began production in India in September.

Apple's Taiwanese assembly partners Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron all have ‌iPhone‌ manufacturing plants in India, where ‌‌iPhone‌‌ 11, iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and most recently ‌iPhone 14‌ models are being produced, with the latest model enjoying a marked reduction in the delay between Chinese and India output from months to weeks.

Apple's ‌iPhone‌ exports from India have amounted to $1 billion in the five months since April. While small by China's standards, India's increasing ‌‌iPhone‌‌ output signals Apple's willingness to plough investment into the country as an alternative to China's electronics assembly dominance, which has suffered recently from the country's zero-COVID policy.

Foxconn's main Zhengzhou plant, which employs about 200,000 people, has been hit by the stringent curbs after an outbreak at the factory, which led the city of about 10 million people to be locked down as a result. ‌iPhone‌ production could fall by as much as 30% next month due to the tightening COVID-19 restrictions in China, according to one report.

Despite the confluence of events, Apple's manufacturing expansion plans in India have been in place for some time are not connected to China's lockdown troubles, although they do highlight Apple's deep reliance on the one country.

In diversifying its production lines away from China, Apple is playing a long game that won't see a major impact on its supply chain for many years. Bloomberg recently reported that it would take around eight years to move just 10% of Apple's production capacity out of China, where about 98% of iPhones are still made.

Top Rated Comments

Bokito Avatar
21 weeks ago

I am curious why apple suppliers are opening plant in India. Does China not have large capabilities. Almost every big brand is have manufacturing facilities / tie-ups in China.
There are different reasons:
- Political reasons; tensions between US govt and China and China vs Taiwan
- Very strict coronavirus control, thus making it an unreliable country
- Phones produced in India don't receive heavy import taxes when sold inside the country
- Wage increases in China over the last decade, India is way cheaper
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Dwalls90 Avatar
21 weeks ago
Good. Diversify out of China.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Ryan H Avatar
21 weeks ago
Good idea diversifying and India are more than up to the job.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
chouseworth Avatar
21 weeks ago
Apple ‘s biggest threat by far is further deterioration in US relations, if not cold or even hot war, with China. Apple is in an especially precarious position with so much of its revenue and market value literally at the mercy of a single foreign power. President Xi can virtually shut down Apple tomorrow if he wishes.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DFZD Avatar
21 weeks ago
So I can finally get it for $700 instead of the usual $1000.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
guywithdog Avatar
21 weeks ago

never the US.
wages are too high.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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