Will India start producing Apple iPhone X from July?
Foxconn will start the commercial production of Apple iPhone X range smartphones from July from its 160-acre factory in Chennai. The increase in manufacturing will further depend on the continuation of a favourable incentive regime into the next government.
The company has begun its India manufacturing journey through another Taiwanese company Wistron, which had started with the iPhone SE from its factory near Bengaluru two years ago and later advanced to iPhone 6S model. Wistron now makes iPhone 7. According to data from the Indian Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA), around 290 million smartphones were assembled in India in 2018 up from 58 million in 2014.
Foxconn had earlier signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu government for premium smartphones manufacturing during the Global Investors Meet conducted in Chennai in January. Apple slashed the rates of all three variants of the iPhone XR by up to 22% last week.
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