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●India is predicted to account for up to 50 per cent of total iPhone production capacity by 2027, according to the latest forecast from DigiTimes Research

●It is a more aggressive estimate than JPMorgan’s earlier prediction that India would assemble 25 per cent of total iPhones worldwide by 2025

India is expected to assemble up to 50 per cent of Apple’s iPhones by 2027, up from fewer than 5 per cent at present, to be on par with the scale of production in mainland China, according to a new report.
“The speed of supply chain migration to India will be accelerated in the future because of the need to diversify risks in light of uncertainties in China’s pandemic control,” said Luke Lin, analyst at the research unit of tech-focused Taiwanese daily newspaper DigiTimes, in a report published on Tuesday.

India, which surpassed the UK last year to rank as the world’s fifth-largest economy, is already predicted to account for up to 25 per cent of total iPhone production by the end of 2023, and as much as 40 per cent by 2025, the report said.
China, where up to 85 per cent of iPhones globally were produced last year, is at risk of losing its dominant role as a manufacturing hub for Apple devices because of US-China decoupling moves, according to Lin. He expected India and Vietnam to be “the biggest beneficiaries” of Apple’s efforts to shift more of its manufacturing supply chain outside China.

The DigiTimes Research forecast is more aggressive than JPMorgan’s earlier prediction that India would assemble 25 per cent of total iPhones worldwide by 2025.

Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, has been one of the most aggressive Apple contractors to bolster its efforts in India. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer in December made a US$500 million cash injection into its Indian subsidiary, Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development.
Other major smartphone brands are also increasing their production outside China, according to the DigiTimes report.
Samsung Electronics, for example, has been shifting more of its Android smartphone manufacturing capacity out of China since 2019, primarily to Vietnam. Samsung smartphone production in China is projected to cease in the next five years, according to the report, as Vietnam and India’s share of assembly work approaches 35 per cent to 40 per cent and 40 per cent to 45 per cent, respectively, by 2027.

That trend reflects how disruptions in China’s manufacturing industry, including snap lockdowns and other Covid-19-related issues, have prompted global brands like Apple and Samsung to quickly establish new supply chains across Asia.

Foxconn, which is Apple’s main iPhone supplier, has scrambled to restore full production capacity at its manufacturing complex in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, following severe disruptions including worker protests that turned violent and the exodus of tens of thousands of employees amid a Covid-19 outbreak that started last October.
The world’s largest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou had gradually recovered to about 90 per cent of maximum capacity as of December 30, according to a report by state media Henan Daily that cited Wang Xue, a deputy manager at the plant.

Smartphone brands other than Apple and Samsung are also expected to see their combined manufacturing capacity in China decrease up to 50 per cent by 2027, down from around 70 per cent in 2023, according to the DigiTimes report.
India’s share of that production capacity is expected to rise up to 35 per cent in the same period, the report said. Vietnam’s share is also expected to increase as much as 15 per cent.

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As Apple moves to increase manufacturing in India, 3 of its component suppliers will invest ₹2750 crores in UP

🔸Seiko Advance Ltd ~ ₹850 Cr
🔸Foxconn ~ ₹700 Cr
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■India's iPhone exports reveal closing tech gap with China

India may be closing a major gap with its rival, China, if you go by Apple's iPhone numbers. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant exported more than $2.5 billion of iPhones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total, according to a Bloomberg report.

Foxconn Technology and Wistron Corp. reportedly have each shipped more than $1 billion of Apple’s iPhones abroad in the first nine months of the fiscal year FY23. Pegatron Corp., another major contract manufacturer for Apple, is on track to move about $500 million of the gadgets overseas by the end of January.

The number underscores how the company is accelerating a shift from China amid high geopolitical tensions. Apple Inc has long planned to set up physical retail locations in India, one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets. While the company in 2020 began direct sales online, plans for brick and mortar stores have not yet materialized.

India is emerging as Apple Inc.’s next manufacturing hub as assembly partners seek to add resilience to a supply chain heavily centered on China and shaken by its geopolitical and health challenges.

According to Counterpoint’s research, smartphones manufactured in India grew 16% in the second quarter of this year, reaching more than 44 million units.

China, for its part, has seen its workforce shrinking since 2020, according to data from the World Bank. A legion of skilled workers who’d received some education and training has been the backbone of China’s rise as the world’s factory



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Indian politicians made a lot of " predictions" like superpower 2012, but still, good luck.

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Haa iPhone ke exports pe toh aise hee badhotaree huwee hai na....
excellent, but all this trillion $$$, supa powa, will cross cross China, amrika etc is becoming a routine shit show,

Vedic forecast and predictions are becoming a joke.

Bhagwan kipiya aisay hi badhotaree aur safalta bani rahay, dimagh k adahi mat karo forcaste pe forcaste kar kay.
 
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excellent, but all this trillion $$$, supa powa, will cross cross China, amrika etc is becoming a routine shit show,

Vedic forecast and predictions are becoming a joke.

Bhagwan kipiya aisay hi badhotaree aur safalta bani rahay, dimagh k adahi mat karo forcaste pe forcaste kar kay.
It's a report. But we all can understand your butt hurt.
 
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But at the same time, Apple is also deepening its connection with China's supply chain. For example, Apple 15 and Apple 15p will use 70% of Chinese panel screens. It is a Chinese enterprise. Like Vietnam’s apple supply system, there are about a dozen factories belonging to Chinese companies. It took ten years for Samsung's mobile phone assembly business to transfer from China to Vietnam, but he still supplies 60 million Samsung mobile phones to China's foundry electronic module company Wingtech Technology every year. China has deepened its investment, and Samsung's TVs and mobile phones also purchase panel brands and chips from Chinese companies.
 
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But at the same time, Apple is also deepening its connection with China's supply chain. For example, Apple 15 and Apple 15p will use 70% of Chinese panel screens. It is a Chinese enterprise. Like Vietnam’s apple supply system, there are about a dozen factories belonging to Chinese companies. It took ten years for Samsung's mobile phone assembly business to transfer from China to Vietnam, but he still supplies 60 million Samsung mobile phones to China's foundry electronic module company Wingtech Technology every year. China has deepened its investment, and Samsung's TVs and mobile phones also purchase panel brands and chips from Chinese companies.

I think the real point is that Apple's 'experiment' with trying production in India has been a success for them. Apple has the most complex phone manufacturing supply chain in the world. They moved some very complex processes as a test and found that it's stable. They are now confident they can move more to India going forward.

For India the implications are huge. If we deliver Apple in a stable way, it will encourage other players to do the same.

It's not necessary to get the entire production chain. We need sufficient parts of the production to establish credibility as a manufacturing hub for high electronic devices to build exports over the long term.
 
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●India is predicted to account for up to 50 per cent of total iPhone production capacity by 2027, according to the latest forecast from DigiTimes Research

●It is a more aggressive estimate than JPMorgan’s earlier prediction that India would assemble 25 per cent of total iPhones worldwide by 2025

India is expected to assemble up to 50 per cent of Apple’s iPhones by 2027, up from fewer than 5 per cent at present, to be on par with the scale of production in mainland China, according to a new report.
“The speed of supply chain migration to India will be accelerated in the future because of the need to diversify risks in light of uncertainties in China’s pandemic control,” said Luke Lin, analyst at the research unit of tech-focused Taiwanese daily newspaper DigiTimes, in a report published on Tuesday.

India, which surpassed the UK last year to rank as the world’s fifth-largest economy, is already predicted to account for up to 25 per cent of total iPhone production by the end of 2023, and as much as 40 per cent by 2025, the report said.
China, where up to 85 per cent of iPhones globally were produced last year, is at risk of losing its dominant role as a manufacturing hub for Apple devices because of US-China decoupling moves, according to Lin. He expected India and Vietnam to be “the biggest beneficiaries” of Apple’s efforts to shift more of its manufacturing supply chain outside China.

The DigiTimes Research forecast is more aggressive than JPMorgan’s earlier prediction that India would assemble 25 per cent of total iPhones worldwide by 2025.

Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, has been one of the most aggressive Apple contractors to bolster its efforts in India. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer in December made a US$500 million cash injection into its Indian subsidiary, Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development.
Other major smartphone brands are also increasing their production outside China, according to the DigiTimes report.
Samsung Electronics, for example, has been shifting more of its Android smartphone manufacturing capacity out of China since 2019, primarily to Vietnam. Samsung smartphone production in China is projected to cease in the next five years, according to the report, as Vietnam and India’s share of assembly work approaches 35 per cent to 40 per cent and 40 per cent to 45 per cent, respectively, by 2027.

That trend reflects how disruptions in China’s manufacturing industry, including snap lockdowns and other Covid-19-related issues, have prompted global brands like Apple and Samsung to quickly establish new supply chains across Asia.

Foxconn, which is Apple’s main iPhone supplier, has scrambled to restore full production capacity at its manufacturing complex in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, following severe disruptions including worker protests that turned violent and the exodus of tens of thousands of employees amid a Covid-19 outbreak that started last October.
The world’s largest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou had gradually recovered to about 90 per cent of maximum capacity as of December 30, according to a report by state media Henan Daily that cited Wang Xue, a deputy manager at the plant.

Smartphone brands other than Apple and Samsung are also expected to see their combined manufacturing capacity in China decrease up to 50 per cent by 2027, down from around 70 per cent in 2023, according to the DigiTimes report.
India’s share of that production capacity is expected to rise up to 35 per cent in the same period, the report said. Vietnam’s share is also expected to increase as much as 15 per cent.

@SIPRA @bluesky

Greater Noida

As Apple moves to increase manufacturing in India, 3 of its component suppliers will invest ₹2750 crores in UP

🔸Seiko Advance Ltd ~ ₹850 Cr
🔸Foxconn ~ ₹700 Cr
🔸Eizo Global ~ ₹1200 Cr

■India's iPhone exports reveal closing tech gap with China

India may be closing a major gap with its rival, China, if you go by Apple's iPhone numbers. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant exported more than $2.5 billion of iPhones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total, according to a Bloomberg report.

Foxconn Technology and Wistron Corp. reportedly have each shipped more than $1 billion of Apple’s iPhones abroad in the first nine months of the fiscal year FY23. Pegatron Corp., another major contract manufacturer for Apple, is on track to move about $500 million of the gadgets overseas by the end of January.

The number underscores how the company is accelerating a shift from China amid high geopolitical tensions. Apple Inc has long planned to set up physical retail locations in India, one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets. While the company in 2020 began direct sales online, plans for brick and mortar stores have not yet materialized.

India is emerging as Apple Inc.’s next manufacturing hub as assembly partners seek to add resilience to a supply chain heavily centered on China and shaken by its geopolitical and health challenges.

According to Counterpoint’s research, smartphones manufactured in India grew 16% in the second quarter of this year, reaching more than 44 million units.

China, for its part, has seen its workforce shrinking since 2020, according to data from the World Bank. A legion of skilled workers who’d received some education and training has been the backbone of China’s rise as the world’s factory



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Stop writing a bloody long post. Who cares what India produces after 100 years? tell us what India produces now. If the production base is so large, then why Indians should cross the border and come to BD to seek jobs?
 
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I thought the 50% happened now. So, still need to wait until 2027? LOL.

Nobody can predict the future accurately. Especially things matter to India :enjoy:
 
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And what is the share of China smart phone brands sales in India, must be over 75% smart phones are 'Made by China' even if they are 'produced in India'.

'Make in' is replaced by 'Made by', due to trade and tariff barriers, globalization, cost arbitration and other issues. So it is very profitable for China's giants Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, Lenovo others to Make in India and at the same time in reality it is Made by China, even if the OEM's are Chinese and some S. Koreans, Taiwan, the largest profit margin goes to China.

China wins here by winning the share in India smart phone market.
 
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Tata Nears iPhone Plant Takeover to Grow Apple Supply Role​

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The Wistron plant in Kolar, Karnakata.
Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg

Tata Group is close to taking over a major plant in southern India in a deal that would give the country its first homegrown iPhone maker.

The airline-to-software conglomerate has been in talks with the factory’s owner, Taiwan’s Wistron Corp., for months, and is looking to complete the purchase by the end of March, according to two people familiar with the process. The two firms discussed various potential tieups but talks have now centered on Tata taking a majority of a joint venture, the people said. Tata is set to oversee the main manufacturing operation, with support from Wistron, the people said, asking not to be named because the plans aren’t public.

Apple Inc.’s iPhones are mainly assembled by Taiwanese manufacturing giants like Wistron and Foxconn Technology Group. Tata’s deal would advance India’s efforts to create local contenders to challenge China’s dominance in electronics, which has been jeopardized by political tensions with the US and Covid-related hurdles.

The Indian conglomerate aims to complete a due diligence process by March 31 so that its Tata Electronics arm can formally take over Wistron’s position in a program that gives it government incentives, one of the people said. The next cycle of incentives will begin from April 1, which marks the start of India’s financial year.

The acquisition could value Wistron’s only iPhone manufacturing operation in India at more than $600 million if the Taiwanese company meets the requirements to receive the expected incentives for the current financial year, one of the people said.
A Tata representative declined to comment. Wistron and Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment.
“I am not directly involved in that, but it should be really good for India because this is going to create an opportunity in India to manufacture electronics and microelectronics,” said N Ganapathy Subramaniam, operating chief at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., the IT giant that’s Tata’s biggest listed unit.

A deal would mark a step toward establishing India as a cutting-edge electronic manufacturing base, said Subramaniam, who is brother to Tata Group Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran.


Wistron is one of three Taiwanese iPhone manufacturers in India, along with Foxconn and Pegatron Corp. It has sought to diversify its business beyond thin-margin iPhone manufacturing into areas such as servers, agreeing to sell its iPhone production business in China to a competitor in 2020.

Its Taiwanese peers are expanding their iPhone production lines. Apple, the world’s most profitable smartphone maker, is seeking to reduce its dependence on China, where pandemic-related supply chain snarls and draconian restrictions have wrought havoc on device production.

Wistron’s 2.2 million square-foot factory is located just over 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Bangalore. If the acquisition goes through, Tata will take over all its eight iPhone lines, as well as the plant’s 10,000 workers, including a couple thousand engineers. Wistron would continue as a service partner for iPhones in India.


Tata has taken other steps to increase its business with Apple. It has accelerated hiring in its factory in Hosur, near Bangalore, where it produces iPhone components. That plant stands on several hundred acres of land where Tata could add iPhone manufacturing lines in the coming years. Tata has also announced that it will launch 100 Apple stores in the country of 1.4 billion, the first of which is set to open in Mumbai this quarter.

The 150-year-old Tata Group makes everything from branded salt and Tetley Tea to steel and Jaguar cars, and runs an airline and Starbucks cafés in the country. Its TCS is Asia’s largest IT outsourcing company and one of India’s most valuable by market capitalization.

In the past couple of years, Chairman Chandrasekaran has accelerated efforts to make the conglomerate more tech-centric with a slew of e-commerce initiatives and a new super-app called Tata Neu. The group is also set to enter chipmaking, he said last year.
 
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