Xiaomi ties up with BYD, DBG for phone, TV production in India

MUMBAI: Xiaomi said it has partnered with contract manufacturers BYD, DBG and Radiant to strengthen its 'Make in India' efforts.

The Chinese company has tied up with BYD and DBG for smartphones, while Radiant will help augment the company's capacity of smart TVs in India.

The DBG unit in Haryana is already operational and will increase Xiaomi's monthly manufacturing capacity by about 20%, Xiaomi India MD Manu Jain said.

He added that the BYD unit in Tamil Nadu will be operational soon.

Currently, Xiaomi has 5 campuses in India, where its partners Foxconn and Flex assemble phones in Tamil

Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

"There was a need to expand capacity given the huge increase in demand for smartphones on account of work and study from home and high content consumption, and this ramp up in capacity will help in meeting that demand," he said.

Majority of components used in these phones are either locally manufactured, assembled or sourced from India, Jain added.

About 75% of the value of the phones are now locally sourced as components like PCBA, sub-boards, camera modules, back panels, wires and chargers are made in India, he explained.

These components are being manufactured by partners such as Sunny India, NVT, Salcomp, LY Tech, Sunvoda and others.

With all of this going live, Xiaomi has generated employment for about 30,000 people in the manufacturing facilities for smartphones and about 1,000 people for manufacturing units in smart TVs, Jain said.

India saw smartphone shipment at over 150 million units in the pandemichit 2020.