India has also become the world’s second-largest smartphone market after China, measured by volume. The production increase by Apple’s suppliers Foxconn and Tata Electronics in southern India has been the biggest success of Modi’s “Make in India” drive to create more manufacturing jobs in the world’s most populous country.

Apple's decision to expand iPhone manufacturing in India despite challenges shows the growing global confidence in the count

Foxconn to invest $1.5 bn in India for iPhone parts despite Trump's pressure to shift production to the US. New Chennai plant to create 14,000 jobs and boost India's electronics sector

Apple supplier Foxconn will invest $1.5 billion in its India unit, the company said in a filing, as the iPhone maker shifts more manufacturing out of tariff-hit China. Foxconn's Singapore-based subsidiary will buy 12.

Apple is under direct pressure from President Donald Trump, who is back in the White House and demanding that the tech giant shift its iPhone production into

Apple's iPhone supply chain shifts further from China to Chennai The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is moving more of its iPhone supply chain into India, with its long-time partner Foxconn dropping $1.5 billion on a new display module plant near Chennai.

Taiwan's Foxconn is among potential bidders for the Singaporean semiconductor assembly and testing business UTAC Holdings in a deal that could value the company at about $3 billion, two people with knowledge of the matter

Apple is moving ahead with a $1.5 billion Foxconn investment to expand iPhone production in India, despite Trump's appeal.