Tata to invest Rs 5,000 crore in plant that will manufacture components for Apple

[Bilal9]

Walton ?

Yes Walton was the pioneer of cellphone manufacturing as opposed to assembly in Bangladesh a decade ago, they invested in wave soldering lines and pick-and-place robotic machines for placing SMT components on circuit boards. The wave soldering machines came from a bespoke vendor in Norway I believe. The SMT robots are of course Japanese and very expensive.

The rest of the local cellphone industry is mostly assembly but govt. is clamping down with tariff structure, so more and more processes to manufacture components are being indigenized. Samsung offers locally assembled Note 20 in Bangladesh and a bevy of other lower priced models.

As I said, import of phones has come down to very low levels. The market is dominated by local brands. As taxes are a concern, exact number of phones manufactured is not available, but conservative estimates place locally assembled phones in the majority.

 

[Chhatrapati]

Here we have someone embarrassing their own country.

 

[RPK]

Policies and ambitious targets aren't even worth the paper they are written on, if actual work on the ground never begins.

First you have to reach Bangladesh level, then think about China. It doesn't sound too good, but it is reality.

"Being an alternative to China" goal is heart-warming, but India is already two decades behind China, lot of catching up to do. I mean - a lot.

I am aware of what Foxconn is doing near Chennai. Screwing together subassemblies made in China, and then slapping iPhone logos on it, to sell in India is not called manufacturing, it's called assembly. AFAIK no circuit board is even made in India, much less screens or other critical hardware.

And Foxconn is not an Indian company.

Bangladesh manufactures ~75% of its cellphones sold within our borders, by majority Bangladeshi companies, almost all local investments. A good portion of it is made from scratch, from circuit board level. Take that and chew on it for a while please.

you have comprehensive issues I talking about about my state. You talking about India. TN already has lot semiconductor industry already. If you data about India just google

 

[Bilal9]

you have comprehensive issues I talking about about my state. You talking about India. TN already has lot semiconductor industry already. If you data about India just google

Did not get your English, but OK...