iPhone News: The Tata group is in talks with a Taiwanese supplier of Apple to form an electronics manufacturing joint venture in India and assemble the iPhone, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
According to the report, the discussions with Wistron are aimed at making Tata a force in technology manufacturing and the group is looking to tap the Taiwanese company’s expertise in product development, supply chain and assembly.
The report said that if the agreement is successful, Tata could become the first Indian business to make an iPhone, which is now cobbled together in China and India, largely by companies such as Taiwan and Wistron and Foxconn Technology Group.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that the next iPhone 15 is likely to be manufactured in India and China at the same time next year.
“The iPhone 14 mass production schedule in India this year is still about six weeks behind China, but the gap has improved significantly. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect India and China to produce the new iPhone 15 at the same time. Will be able to produce. Next year,” Koo had earlier tweeted.
Last month, reports had mentioned that the tech giant would start production of the latest iPhones in India two months after its launch. However, Kuo later mentioned that it would be manufactured “about six weeks later”.
Apple first started manufacturing iPhones in India in 2017 with the iPhone SE. The tech giant manufactures some of its most advanced iPhones in the country, including the iPhone 11, iPhone 12 and iPhone 13, at the Foxconn facility, while the iPhone SE and iPhone 12 are being assembled at the Wistron factory in the country.
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