26 Jul 2024
Its experience assembling iPhones in the Tamil Nadu plant has been encouraging, and now Foxconn plans to use the facility to assemble iPads.
Foxconn, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer of Apple products, plans to start assembling iPads in its Sriperumbudur plant in Tamil Nadu.
iPad assembly requirements are similar to those of an iPhone, unlike a MacBook, which is a completely different ballgame. Foxconn has already had discussions with the Indian government. They’ve had a good experience so far and will likely double their production in the next few years to expand their portfolio to a few other products.
Foxconn is trying to neutralise supply chain risks by relying on production facilities across different regions. Foxconn assembles MacBooks in Vietnam, which logs up to 10% of iPad production globally.
Foxconn plans to leverage the production-linked incentives (PLI 2.0) for IT hardware, including tablets, offered by the Indian government. It may soon begin manufacturing AI servers at the Sriperumbudur plant and is in discussions with Google for manufacturing Pixel smartphones in the same facility.