Apple plans to cut iPhone 14 production lag between China, India

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is planning to start manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product’s initial release out of China, in a move that will narrow the gap from the typical six to nine months, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The news comes as the company is looking at options after the US-China trade war and lockdowns across China that disrupted iPhone production.

The Cupertino-giant has been working with suppliers to ramp up manufacturing in India, and the first iPhone 14 lineup from the country is likely to be produced in late October or November, following the initial September release, the report said.

Apple’s Taiwan-based supplier Foxconn has studied the process of shipping items from China and assembling the iPhone 14 at its plant outside the southern Indian city of Chennai, it reported.