Overview

• Industry reports say Foxconn’s $2.8 billion Devanahalli plant in Bengaluru has commenced small-scale assembly of the iPhone 17, supplementing output at its Chennai facility.
• Apple and Foxconn did not respond to requests for confirmation, leaving the launch date and production capacity unverified.
• The facility, Foxconn’s second-largest unit outside China, faced a brief halt earlier this year after hundreds of Chinese engineers departed unexpectedly.
• Foxconn addressed the staffing gap by deploying Taiwanese experts and other foreign specialists alongside local engineers to keep production on schedule.
• The new assembly line advances Apple’s China+1 supply-chain strategy by shifting more U.S.-bound manufacturing to India and supporting a 60 million-unit output goal for 2025.