14 DAY TRIAL // Foxconn Electronics, Apple’s main supplier (assembler) of iPhone and iPads, is reportedly beefing up its manpower at some plants in Zhengzhou, China. The hiring is for a “US-based brand vendor” who is reportedly making two new smartphones.
Citing unnamed market watchers with connections in Taiwan, trade publication DigiTimes notes that “Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) started hiring workers for its plants in Zhengzhou, China at the end of March.”
The recruitment is mainly for the “integrated digital product business group,” or IDPBG in short. The department is in charge of “producing smartphones for a US-based brand vendor,” reads the report.
The paper drops some solid hints that said U.S. company is, in fact, Apple Inc.
Based on the new recruitment, Foxconn will reportedly start producing “a next-generation smartphone and an entry-level model [that it will ship] to the client in the second quarter.”
This bodes well with rumors of a cheap iPhone being released this year alongside an all-new high-end iteration.
The report also notes that Foxconn is currently training workers to avoid yield rate issues when volume production ramps up.