Apple reportedly in talks to make AirPods and Beats in India

Apple has requested suppliers to start making a few of its AirPods and Beats headphones in India as early as subsequent 12 months, in response to a Nikkei Asia report Wednesday.

The talks mark the corporate’s newest try and decrease the danger of provide chain disruptions in China as a consequence of Covid lockdowns and elevated U.S.-China commerce tensions. Apple was reportedly in discussions in August to shift a few of its Apple Watches, MacBooks and HomePods to Vietnam, and it introduced in September that it’s assembling a few of its flagship iPhone 14 telephones in India.

Apple nonetheless depends closely on China for almost all of iPhone manufacturing.

Foxconn, one in all Apple’s manufacturing companions, will make the Beats headphones in India and attempt to make AirPods there sooner or later, in response to the report. Luxshare Precision Trade, which produces Apple’s AirPods in Vietnam and China, will even assist with AirPods manufacturing efforts in India.

Apple has been trying to enhance gross sales in India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market. And although Apple’s shift to manufacturing in India was initially geared toward rising gross sales, it’s now treating the nation extra like a strategic manufacturing base, in response to the report.

India will work to draw additional funding by spending greater than $30 billion on its electronics provide chain, Nikkei Asia stated.

An Apple consultant didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.