Google is looking out for securing partnerships with suppliers in India for shifting some a part of the manufacturing of its Pixel smartphones, in what seems to be a bid to shift away from China.
In line with a Bloomberg report, Google has initiated early conversations with potential companions, together with Lava Worldwide Ltd, Dixon Applied sciences India, and Foxconn Expertise Group’s Indian unit Bharat FIH.
The corporate is in talks with Indian companies which have secured Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s production-linked monetary incentives.
A couple of executives of Google, together with working chief of its client {hardware} arm Ana Corrales, and Maggie Wei, a senior director of worldwide sustaining product operations, have been in India not too long ago for the partnership talks.
Final month, Expertise Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in California. The dialog reportedly revolved across the Indian authorities’s native manufacturing drive.
Google’s transfer to diversify past China is much like the latest bid by Apple Inc. to spice up its provider base in India.