India’s new crown (Chinese Communist virus) epidemic continues to heat up, is located in India’s Tamil Nadu state (Tamil Nadu) in the southern Foxconn factory also reported more than a hundred employees confirmed, causing the iPhone 12 production capacity fell by more than 50%. Foxconn said the company has been working closely with the Indian government and health department, but did not respond to the drop in capacity or staff reduction.
Reuters cited sources familiar with the matter, saying that due to Foxconn’s Indian plant a number of employees infected with the new crown pneumonia, had to stop work, resulting in a large reduction in iPhone 12 production capacity of more than 50%.
India’s epidemic is out of control, Tamil Nadu is one of the most serious areas of the epidemic, the implementation of a two-week blockade from 10, not only mass transit stop, stores were also forced to close. The Foxconn India plant in Tamil Nadu, which specializes in the production of Apple iPhones for the Indian domestic market, has also been affected by the recent expansion of the epidemic, with more than 100 employees screening positive, and Foxconn has issued a ban on these infected employees from entering the plant until the end of May.
Two sources pointed out that due to the lack of manpower, Foxconn’s Indian plant capacity has been significantly reduced by 50%, and only a small portion of production is being maintained.
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics foundry and Apple’s main supplier, said that some employees at the Indian plant have been diagnosed and the company is providing medical assistance to them, but the company would not respond to the detailed figures of the hardware and software in the plant.
Benefiting from the trade war between China and the United States, Apple previously moved some of its Chinese factories to India, and Apple also announced that it would assemble the iPhone 12 in India from March. Despite the low sales of the iPhone in the Indian market, which is dominated by cheap phones, Apple executive plant Cook said the launch of the network mall has doubled the annual growth of India’s performance in the fourth quarter of 2020. On the other hand, the trend of working from home is also one of the reasons for pushing up smartphone sales growth.
The report pointed out that due to the rapid expansion of the Indian epidemic on Foxconn’s India plant impact, Nokia and Chinese brand Oppo are also shut down due to the epidemic. Technology research firm TrendForce predicts that global smartphone production growth will be revised down to 8.5% from the originally expected 9.4%.
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