Main Apple provider Foxconn stated on Saturday it was searching for cooperation in India in new areas like chips and electrical autos after a go to to the nation by its chairman, Liu Younger-way.

Apple has been shifting manufacturing away from China after the nation’s strict Covid-19 restrictions disrupted the manufacturing of new-model iPhones and different units, and amid tensions between Beijing and Washington.

In January, India’s commerce minister stated Apple, which started iPhone meeting within the nation in 2017 by way of Wistron and later Foxconn, needs India to account for as much as 25% of its manufacturing from about 5% to 7% presently.

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and formally known as Hon Hai Precision Business, stated Liu had visited India from Feb. 27 to Saturday.

“My journey this week supported Foxconn’s efforts to deepen partnerships, meet previous associates and make new ones, and search cooperation in new areas comparable to semiconductor growth and electrical autos,” Liu stated in a press release.

Foxconn has formidable plans to make EVs, and can also be trying to make chips.

“On the premise to share, collaborate and thrive collectively, Foxconn will proceed to speak with native governments to hunt essentially the most useful growth alternatives for the corporate and all stakeholders,” Liu added.

He didn’t point out any new concrete funding plans within the nation, and Foxconn has not introduced any since his journey.

Apple’s iPhones will quickly be assembled at one other web site within the southern Indian state of Karnataka, and 300 acres (120 hectares) have been apart to arrange a manufacturing facility, the state authorities stated on Friday.

At the moment, iPhones are assembled in India by at the least three of Apple’s international suppliers — Foxconn and Pegatron in Tamil Nadu, and Wistron in Karnataka.