Foreign media reports, Apple Inc. (Apple Inc.) is expanding India and Southeast Asian countries in the iPhone, iPad, Macs and other products production capacity, analysis said that despite the new President Biden‘s term, Apple hopes that tensions between China and the United States can be eased, but at the same Time, will continue to accelerate the supply chain out of China.
The report said that as early as the middle of this year, the company began production of iPads in Vietnam, which means that for the first time it is manufacturing a large number of tablets outside of China. Meanwhile, the company is accelerating production of tablets in India and plans to start production of the latest iphone 12 series phones in the country this quarter.
The company is mobilizing Vietnamese suppliers to expand production capacity for the latest version of its HomePod mini, which has been made in Vietnam since the device was launched last year. The company is also boosting local production in Vietnam for its audio-related products, including various AirPods series. In addition, the company is said to have shifted some of its Mac mini production to Malaysia and also plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam this year.
Apple and many other technology companies are looking to produce outside of China, and even with a new president in the United States, this will not slow down the shift in supply chain, and the company is aiming to build production capacity in Southeast Asian countries to support a variety of core products like iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, AirPods and more that would have been difficult to imagine 2 years ago. The company is also aiming to build production capacity in Southeast Asia to support a wide range of core products such as iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, AirPods and more, which would have been unimaginable 2 years ago.
Apple suppliers are also trying to meet Apple’s demand for a diverse production base, with Taiwan-based Foxconn officially setting up a subsidiary in Vietnam late last year under the name Hon Hai Precision Industry with a $270 million investment. Another Taiwanese company, Lixin Precision, is also expanding its HomePod mini production capacity in northern Vietnam to address supply constraints for the popular device.
Apple’s move is to reduce its reliance on production in China, where rising labor costs, long-standing trade tensions between China and the U.S. and an Epidemic that has severely disrupted the supply chain have made it clear that it cannot rely too heavily on a single market for supply. The U.S. government also launched a “supply chain restructuring” campaign earlier and urged technology suppliers to leave China.
China has the most comprehensive supply chain and remains an important manufacturing center for major technology companies, but Apple’s decision to move so many products out of the country suggests that the technology decoupling between the U.S. and China is likely to continue until 2021, and while some hope the political climate will improve when Biden takes over, Biden has said he will not immediately reverse the tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration starting in 2018. Policy.
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