SAN FRANCISCO:  Tata Group is in discussions with an Apple supplier from Taiwan about setting up a joint venture (JV) to manufacture electronics in India and assembling iPhones, a report said citing Bloomberg on Friday

The Group wants to take use of the Taiwanese company's experience in product development, supply chain management, and assembly, the report claims. The conversations with Wistron are intended to help Tata become a major player in the technology manufacturing industry.

As per reprots, if the partnership is successful, Tata might become the first Indian company to produce iPhones, which are now primarily assembled in China and India by Taiwanese manufacturing titans like Wistron and Foxconn Technology Group.

Ming-Chi Kuo, an industry expert, said earlier this month that the next iPhone 15 will likely be produced simultaneously in China and India in 2019.

It is realistic to believe that China and India will be able to create the new iPhone 15 at the same time next year, Kuo earlier tweeted. "The iPhone 14's mass production schedule in India this year is still around six weeks behind China, but the gap has improved dramatically," Kuo said.

According to estimates from last month, the Apple giant would begin manufacturing the most recent iPhones in India two months after their release. Kuo later clarified, though, that it would be produced "approximately six weeks" later.

With the release of the iPhone SE in 2017, Apple first began producing iPhones in India. The electronics giant produces some of its most technologically advanced iPhone models there, including the iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13, in the Foxconn factory, while the iPhone SE and iPhone 12 are put together at the Wistron plant.

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