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iPhone assembler Wistron plans to have 50% of production outside China by 2021

iPhone assembler Wistron  expects to have 50% of production outside China by 2021, according to Digitimes.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Taiwan-based company has continued expanding its capacity worldwide, with plans to invest US$46.8 million in its plant in Texas, a maximum of $68.05 million to acquire equipment for its plant in Kunshan, China, and a maximum of US$76 million to purchase equipment for a plant in India. Wistron also announced at the end of 2019 that it would invest in a plant in Vietnam that will enter mass production in 2021.

Dennis Sellers

Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.

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