Apple to start AirPods manufacturing at Foxconn’s Hyderabad manufacturing unit: Report

Apple will begin the manufacturing of its AirPods wi-fi earbuds at Foxconn’s facility in Hyderabad, as per PTI. The Hyderabad plant, with an accredited funding of $400 million by Foxconn, is projected to provoke large-scale manufacturing by December 2024.

Foxconn Hyderabad manufacturing unit will make AirPods and the manufacturing unit is anticipated to start mass manufacturing by December, PTI reported.

In the realm of true wi-fi stereo (TWS), Apple’s AirPods take the lead on a worldwide scale. Research firm Canalys reported that over the last quarter of 2022, Apple held roughly 36 p.c of the TWS market share, securing its dominance.

After Apple, Samsung held a market share of seven.5 p.c, whereas Xiaomi claimed 4.4 p.c, Boat held 4 p.c, and Oppo had 3 p.c. Xiaomi initiated the manufacturing of its TWS gadgets in India this 12 months on the Optiemus Electronics facility in Noida, counsel the report.

Meanwhile, the upcoming iPhone SE 4, the fourth era of the smartphone sequence set to succeed the iPhone SE (2022), is rumored to characteristic a USB Type-C port, as indicated by a dependable supply. Apple’s transfer to exchange the Lightning port with USB Type-C is anticipated to be launched with the purported iPhone 15 lineup subsequent month, and this transition is prone to prolong to forthcoming fashions as nicely.

Notably, the Apple iPhone SE 4 can be predicted to combine Face ID performance and may embody an Action button, a characteristic anticipated to premiere on the iPhone 15 Pro later this 12 months.

As per info from tipster Unknownz21 (@URedditor on X), the design of the iPhone SE 4 is anticipated to bear similarities to the beforehand launched iPhone 14. This means that the speculated machine may very well be the primary within the SE sequence to undertake Apple’s notch-based show design. However, the supply signifies that, akin to its predecessors and all different SE fashions, the fourth-generation Apple smartphone will come outfitted with a single rear digicam.

(With inputs from PTI)`

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Updated: 15 Aug 2023, 04:10 PM IST

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