Foxconn units up JV with HCL Group for semicon packaging unit

Foxconn, also referred to as Hon Hai Precision Business, stated it’s partnering with India’s HCL Group to start out a chip packaging and testing enterprise within the nation.

As per a submitting on the Taiwanese inventory change, Foxconn Hon Hai Know-how India Mega Growth, a unit of the Taiwanese contract producer, will make investments $37.2 million for a 40% stake within the three way partnership.

Foxconn has additionally submitted contemporary purposes to determine a semiconductor fabrication unit in India below the PLI scheme, as Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Minister of IT, disclosed within the parliament in December.

With this, it seems that Foxconn’s ambitions in semiconductors are in movement once more.

Final July, Foxconn dissolved its three way partnership with mining conglomerate Vedanta for a chip fabrication unit. Whereas it seems that it has no Indian companion for the fabrication unit that it plans to arrange. The JV with HCL Group will lead to one other Micron-like chip packaging and testing facility in India quickly.

Foxconn’s present enterprise in India is essentially restricted to the manufacturing of iPhones within the nation. It’s the world’s largest assembler of iPhones, and it has moved a part of its operations to India as a part of the China+1 technique of many tech corporations that want to diversify their provide chains amidst US-China tensions.

Together with Tata and Pegatron, Foxconn is the contract manufacturing companion for Apple in India. Foxconn contributes to 68 per cent of the overall manufacturing of iPhones in India.

Final November, Foxconn additionally introduced that it might make investments one other $1.6 billion as a part of its China+1 push.

Whereas the precise specifics of the investments weren’t recognized. For Apple merchandise particularly, it’s also planning to take a position ₹8,800 crore in Karnataka to arrange an iPhone part unit, which is able to create 14,000 new jobs. It is usually taking a look at different websites in Tumakuru metropolis, Karnataka, to fabricate different iPhone equipment.



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