Apple has started manufacturing of one of its flagship devices, the iPhone 11, at Chennai’s Foxconn plant. In a major win for the govt’s Aatamnirbhar India initiative, This is the first time Apple has manufactured a top model in India. Apple also has plans to make the iPhone SE 2020 in India in its Wistron plant near Bangalore.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal announced on Friday. Goyal wrote, “Significant boost to Make in India! Apple has started manufacturing iPhone 11 in India, bringing a top-of-the-line model for the first time in the country.”
Prior to this, the Cupertino-based tech giant had started assembling the iPhone XR in India in 2019. In 2017, Apple had started the domestic manufacturing of the Apple iPhone SE 2016 in the Bangalore plant.
Foxconn, which is a leading supplier for Apple has planned to invest up to $1 billion to expand its India factory where it assembles iPhone models. Pegatron — the second-largest iPhone assembler after Foxconn — was also reported to make some investment in the country and set up a local subsidiary in the coming future.
