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facility will be for Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a
Foxconn unit, with the proposed campus coming up at the
Kancheepuram district near the state capital of Chennai, a state
government source said on condition of anonymity as the details
are not yet public.
The facility will be separate from the current sprawling campus
near Chennai where Foxconn assembles Apple's iPhones and employs
more than 35,000 people, the source said.
"This is a major achievement for the state," Tamil Nadu Minister
for Industries TRB Rajaa said in a statement, after Foxconn
Chairman Young Liu and other representatives met with the state
officials including its chief minister.
Foxconn did not respond to a request for comment.
Liu has been in India to attend the federal government's
semiconductor conference that ended on Sunday.
Reuters reported last week that the Foxconn subsidiary was in
talks with Tamil Nadu about the investment, with the company
aiming for the plant's completion in 2024.
Foxconn's FII makes electronic devices, cloud service equipment
and industrial robots. It was not immediately clear if the new
India plant would make components for iPhones or for other
companies, or both.
Foxconn plans to quadruple the workforce at its iPhone factory
in Tamil Nadu by late 2024 in a bid to spread its bets beyond
China, Reuters reported last year.
($1 = 82.2825 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru and Praveen
Paramasivam in Chennai; Additional reporting by Yi-Mou Lee;
Editing by Aditya Kalra, Jamie Freed and Himani Sarkar)
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