Apple looks to Luxshare for iPhone 15 Pro Max assembly - AppleInsider

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Apple has reportedly chosen Luxshare arsenic an further shaper for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, easing its reliance connected Foxconn.

Foxconn has agelong served arsenic the large shaper to assemble iPhone Pro models, but caller troubles astatine its Zhengzhou installation has slowed iPhone 14 Pro production. Wednesday's report from Trendforce estimates that iPhone 14 shipments person fallen to 78.1 cardinal units successful 2022 owed to the interaction of COVID-19 astatine Foxconn's large iPhone factory.

To support up iPhone production, it volition beryllium bully for Apple to spouse with much suppliers. For example, Luxshare already assembles AirPods for Apple, and won a contract successful 2021 to physique a information of iPhone 13 models.

Luxshare has built a "mega-plant" successful China for iPhone assembly. It has besides leased and renovated a adjacent works antecedently owned by iPad assembler Compal.

Apple has been gradually moving accumulation of its devices extracurricular of China, and this determination won't assistance successful that immediately.. The institution reportedly plans to move immoderate MacBook Pro accumulation to Vietnam successful 2023, aft having shifted a information of iPad manufacturing to the state successful 2021.

India is besides producing iPhones for Apple, starting with the iPhone 11 successful 2020 and the iPhone 12 successful 2021, followed by the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 in 2022.