SHANGHAI -- Hon Hai will relocate tens of thousands of employees to lower-costs Chinese cities to take advantage of tax benefits and cut costs, according to published reports.
In order to cut operating costs by 20%, Hon Hai (Foxconn) will move up to 160,000 workers from a campus in Shenzhen farther inland to Wuhan and Jincheng, China Tech News said.
TAIPEI -- Foxconn has landed a contract to build the next-generation Apple iMac.
Digitimes is reporting Apple chose Foxconn over Quanta to produce some 800,000 units per month of the all-in-one PC.
Foxconn is also reportedly in the running to nab a deal with Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 smartphone. Other companies still bidding for the program include Pegatron, the manufacturing arm of
Asus, and a third undisclosed firm.
The Xperia X1 contractor, HTC, is out of the running, the report claimed,.
STOCKHOLM -- NOTE AB, a top 50 EMS provider,will lay off 100 workers, mostly in Sweden, in response to decreased demand, the company said. The company will take fourth-quarter charges of 50 million kronors ($6.43 million) to cover the layoff costs.