iPhone-Maker Foxconn to Make Chips in India With Vedanta Amid Global Shortage

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and a major Apple supplier, has expanded into areas including EVs and semiconductors.

By Reuters | Updated: 15 February 2022 10:00 IST

iPhone-Maker Foxconn to Make Chips in India With Vedanta Amid Global Shortage

Foxconn said it would invest $118.7 million (roughly Rs. 900 crore) to set up a joint venture company

Highlights

Foxconn announced plans to become a major player in the global EV market
Foxconn had partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta
The company is looking to diversify its business amid a chip shortage

Taiwan's Foxconn said on Monday it had partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in the South Asian country, as the electronics giant looks to diversify its business amid a global chip shortage.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and a major Apple supplier, has expanded into areas including electric vehicles (EVs) and semiconductors in recent years.

In a statement, Foxconn said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with oil-to-metals group Vedanta to make semiconductors, calling it "a significant boost to domestic manufacturing of electronics in India."

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Foxconn said it would invest $118.7 million (roughly Rs. 900 crore) to set up a joint venture company with Vedanta, which would be the majority shareholder of the new venture. Foxconn would hold 40 percent of the venture's shares, it added.

"This first-of-its-kind joint venture between the two companies will support Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to create an ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in India," the statement said.

The Taiwan company has in recent years counted semiconductors among its core businesses and last year formed a partnership with Yageo to make semiconductor chips, following a global chip shortage that has rattled producers of goods from cars to electronics.

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The company has also in recent years announced plans to become a major player in the global EV market, and has said it was in talks with "related foundries" on possible collaboration to make chips for EVs.

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