iPhone production in India expands with two assembly plants from Tata and Foxconn

As the Trump administration pressures Apple into making the iPhone in America, Apple has felt pressured to move more iPhone production out of China and into India. Reuters reports that a new iPhone assembly plant has come online, and a second location is expected to go live in a matter of days. The first location is a Tata Electronics iPhone factory in Hosur that’s tasked with assembling previous generation iPhone models: A new Tata Electronics plant in Hosur in south India’s Tamil Nadu state started operations in recent days to make older iPhone models on one assembly line, one source said. Another $2.6 billion plant run by Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) that is under construction in Bengaluru, Karnataka state, will also start initial operations with one assembly line within days, according to four sources, including one government official. Reuters adds that the second factory is a Foxconn facility that’s expected to be able to produce 300-500 iPhones per hour. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 ... Read full article.