Apple manufacturer Foxconn reckons it will create one million jobs in India by 2020 – nearly the entire number of its current Chinese workforce – according to reports.
Hon Hai otherwise known in the West as Foxconn, last month revealed it was setting its sights on India due to increasing wage costs in China.
The firm has not released any more details or elaborated on what the plans will mean for its Chinese manufacturing base. However, it does appear to be slowly fleshing out a relocation move.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:11PM
Africa is next big spot for this kind of work. Massive Chinese financial investment, etc. I donno that they can do it. You can't run a semiconductor fab during an ethnic cleansing or famine or disease outbreak, for example. On the bright side, uncountable billions invested might mean they won't be permitted to behave that way anymore.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:28PM
Much of Africa is becoming more politically stable than it once was, with legitimate contested elections in many places and fewer disease outbreaks, wars, and famines. I could imagine a lot of companies successfully setting up shop in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Ivory Coast, or Burkina Faso.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:53PM
Much of Africa is becoming more politically stable than it once was, with legitimate contested elections in many places
Can we get one of those here in the US?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:46PM
Why not the Tibetans and Bhutanese? Long before I ever learned to code I read Battlefield Earth and its depiction of lamaist monks really taking to programming. Now that I do that myself I think that L. Ron Hubbard was onto something with that.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:55PM
So, how'd you like the movie?
Rating: 3 percent [rottentomatoes.com]
-- gewg_