After Apple, Google is set to manufacture Pixel smartphones in India, with plans to export the devices to Europe and the US, media reports said. According to reports, the tech giant will soon begin commercial production through partnerships with Foxconn and Dixon Technologies’ subsidiary Padget Electronics.
The company has already started trial production in Tamil Nadu with Foxconn, a major maker of Apple devices.
As per reports, Google might make the formal announcement of this development in H2. The base variant of the Pixel phone would be made by Dixon Technologies, while Foxconn would manufacture Pro variants.
The commercial production will likely commence in September and the export might start once the production stabilizes. This move is in line with the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) programme, which aims to boost domestic manufacturing, the reports mentioned.
Meanwhile, Apple exported iPhones worth over £1.65 bn in the first two months of the current financial year - accounting for more than 80 per cent of the country’s total production/assembly of iPhones.
For FY 24, Apple saw a total iPhone production of around $14 billion. The company has increased iPhone production and one out of seven iPhones in the world is now being manufactured in India, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As per the India Cellular and Electronics Association data, mobile phone production surged from £1.89 bn in 2014-15 to an estimated £41 bn in FY24, registering an increase of a massive 2,000 per cent, driven by the PLI scheme.
