More than 20 000 employees at Apple supplier Foxconn’s huge Chinese plant have left, a source said on Friday.
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Zhengzhou, home to Apple’s largest iPhone factory, will be largely locked down for five days.
Hundreds of workers at Apple’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel over tough Covid restrictions.
Apple expects to produce at least three million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, sources said.
A significant iPhone production cut at a virus-blighted plant in China has dampened Apple’s sales outlook for the year-end holiday season.
Apple’s Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron has begun assembling the company’s latest iPhone 14 model in India.
China has ordered a seven-day lockdown of the area around Foxconn’s main plant in Zhengzhou.
Production of iPhones could slump by as much as 30% at one of the world’s biggest factories due to tightening Covid-19 curbs.
Tata Group is in talks with a Taiwanese supplier to Apple to establish an electronics manufacturing joint venture in India.
Apple plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product’s initial release out of China.