Apple supplier Pegatron begins assembling iPhone 14 in India in shift from China

Apple Inc’s Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron Corp has begun assembling the company’s latest iPhone 14 model in India. That move makes Pegatron the second Apple supplier to produce the iPhone 14 in the country, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News, declining to be identified as the manufacturing plan is not public.

It comes at a time when Apple’s key iPhone Pro manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou — operated by Foxconn Technology Group — was placed under an abrupt Covid-19 lockdown by authorities. That situation put a spotlight on Apple’s deep reliance on China, though the India expansion was in line with diversification plans already in place, the people said.