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2025-12-17 10:25:09
[Apple Talks with Local Manufacturers for iPhone Chip Packaging, First Time in India] 1. According to the Indian newspaper *The Economic Times*, citing sources, Apple is in preliminary talks with Indian chip manufacturers to discuss assembling and packaging iPhone chips in India. 2. The report indicates that this is the first time Apple has considered bringing some back-end chip manufacturing to India. Potential partners in the negotiations include CG Semi, a subsidiary of the Murugappa Group, which is building an Outsourced Semiconductor Packaging and Testing (OSAT) plant in Sanand, Gujarat. While the specific chips to be packaged have not yet been finalized, it is rumored to include components such as display driver chips.
