Amazon.com Inc is to begin making devices in India for the first time, joining a flock of technology companies setting up manufacturing operations in the country.
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant would start making the devices via a subsidiary of its manufacturing partner, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) — known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) outside of Taiwan — with production starting later this year in its facilities outside Chennai, the company said in a blog post yesterday.
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