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Hon Hai Precision Industry

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (trading as Foxconn) is the world's biggest maker of electronic components. Primarily an original equipment manufacturer, its clients include major some of the world’s best known electronics and information technology companies, and products manufactured at its plants include iPads, iPhones, iPods for Apple, Kindles for Amazon, PlayStations for Sony and Xboxes for Microsoft. Foxconn has been involved in several controversies, largely over employee relations in China after a series of suicides and accidents. In 2012, Apple hired the Fair Labor Association to conduct an audit of working conditions at Foxconn.

Chairman / President

Liu Young-Way

CEO / Managing Director

Liu Young-Way

CFO / Finance Director

David Huang

Industry

IT / Tech / Telecoms

Stock Code

OTCMKTS:HNHPF
TWSE:2317

Apple

Apple’s Tim Cook visits China as reliance on Chinese suppliers endures

Cook shows up at an Apple Store in Chengdu as part of the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

18 Mar 2026 - 10:00PM

Technology

Opinion | Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story

7 Dec 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Foxconn

Taiwan’s Foxconn expands AI hardware push with OpenAI deal

21 Nov 2025 - 2:52PM

Foxconn

Nvidia and Apple supplier Foxconn posts 17% rise in third-quarter profit

Net profit for Nvidia’s biggest server maker and Apple’s top iPhone assembler hits US$1.89 billion, higher than US$1.62 billion estimate.

12 Nov 2025 - 3:13PMvideocam

Foxconn Technology Group is the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer. Photo: Shutterstock

China technology

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce

Beyond factory walls, the typhoon interrupts vital transport and logistics arteries connecting China to global markets.

24 Sep 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

Robotics

Foxconn unit invests US$30 million in Hong Kong-based Robocore

The capital injection is expected to help Robocore accelerate growth and expand into new markets.

21 Aug 2025 - 8:00AM

Foxconn

Foxconn shifts focus away from iPhones as AI servers drive growth

Foxconn’s revenue from making AI servers and other cloud and networking products surpasses smart consumer products for the first time.

19 Aug 2025 - 10:45AMvideocam

Semiconductors

Japan’s SoftBank to invest US$2 billion in Intel as part of US push

SoftBank has been expanding its US footprint, including a recent deal to buy Foxconn’s electric vehicle plant in Ohio.

19 Aug 2025 - 9:43AM

Foxconn

Apple supplier Foxconn partners with motor maker Teco to build AI data centres

The move underscores Foxconn’s efforts to grow beyond its traditional role as Apple’s main iPhone assembler, as it taps opportunities in AI.

30 Jul 2025 - 7:23PMvideocam

Apple

Apple is shipping nearly all of its India-made iPhones to the US

From March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth US$3.2 billion from India, with an average of 97 per cent shipped to the US.

13 Jun 2025 - 12:09PMvideocam

A man checks an iPhone 16 Pro as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Foxconn

Foxconn expects robust revenue growth from AI despite US tariffs

The world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer plans to enter the US market by the end of this year, chairman Young Liu says.

30 May 2025 - 11:45AM

Foxconn’s headquarters in New Taipei City. Photo: AFP

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls US ban on H20 AI chip ‘deeply painful’

Huang said AI was a ‘full-stack thing’, which meant protecting one layer at the expense of everything else was ‘nonsensical’.

20 May 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

Foxconn

Foxconn invests in India as Apple moves iPhone production from China

Apple is looking to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India by the end of 2026.

22 May 2025 - 2:47PM

Semiconductors

Nvidia’s Huang teases new Taiwan office, supercomputer plans in Computex speech

In his keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Jensen Huang said Nvidia secured a lease for a new property and is partnering with local firms, including Foxconn.

19 May 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote speech for Computex 2025 in Taipei on May 19. Photo: AFP

Robotics

China’s industrial robot output soars, as Unitree and UBTech take lead

Production of industrial robots in April outpaced increases seen in earlier months amid national enthusiasm around the technology.

19 May 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

A UBTech humanoid robot picks up an object during a demonstration simulating a factory’s assembly line. Photo: Reuters

Apple

Trump says he told Apple CEO: ‘I don’t want you building in India’

The comments throw a wrench into Apple’s plan to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India rather than China.

15 May 2025 - 5:05PM

Smartphones

US smartphone shipments jumped 30% in March on tariff anticipation

Manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung increased shipments ahead of US announcement of new tariffs.

15 May 2025 - 10:12AM

Foxconn

Foxconn profit surges amid AI boom, but trade tensions cloud outlook

The Taiwanese iPhone assembler and AI server maker reported a 91 per cent leap in first-quarter profit but downgraded its full-year outlook.

14 May 2025 - 4:06PM

A Foxconn electric two-wheeler powertrain system displayed at the company’s annual tech day in Taipei on October 8, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Apple

Chinese plant resumes hiring after Trump spares iPhones from tariffs

The move highlights the disruption caused by the new US tariffs to Apple’s supply chain.

14 Apr 2025 - 9:00PM

Foxconn

Foxconn’s profits drop as iPhone sales falter, but AI boom offers hope

The Taiwanese company reported a 13 per cent fall in net income, worse than analysts’ estimates for a 2 per cent gain.

17 Mar 2025 - 12:08PM

Artificial intelligence

Foxconn launches traditional Chinese LLM for AI-driven manufacturing

With the training process powered by 120 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the Foxconn model claims to excel in mathematics and logical reasoning.

11 Mar 2025 - 12:15AM

Foxconn

Foxconn breaks ground on new China headquarters in EV push

The move marks a major step by the Apple contractor to diversify its business into EVs, semiconductors, robots and other areas.

28 Feb 2025 - 6:00PM

Foxconn is building a new global headquarters in China. Photo: Reuters

China stock market

Consumer firms plunge in value as AI, chips ascend: Hurun China 500

Technology firms dominate the list of China’s 500 most valuable private companies, as consumer-goods and healthcare providers drop.

25 Feb 2025 - 6:30PM

US-China tech war

Nvidia CEO concludes whirlwind Taiwan tour after key meetings

Jensen Huang met top industry leaders, including TSMC founder Morris Chang and Foxconn chairman Liu Young-way.

21 Jan 2025 - 10:54AM

Semiconductors

UBTech Robotics aims to revolutionise Foxconn’s iPhone factories in China

UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ to deploy more robots in the iPhone maker’s factories.

16 Jan 2025 - 1:39AM

A humanoid robot developed by UBTech moves a heavy load onto an automated guided vehicle at Zeekr’s smart factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Foxconn

Foxconn invests in EV battery plant in China’s iPhone city

The US$82 million capital injection marks the Taiwanese giant’s latest foray into the electric-vehicle sector.

24 Dec 2024 - 4:30PM

Foxconn

iPhone maker Foxconn partners with Nvidia on AI-driven factories

Foxconn is partnering with Nvidia to develop so-called digital twins to help build advanced facilities around the world.

19 Nov 2024 - 2:00PM

Foxconn

Mainland China detains four Taiwanese employees at ‘iPhone city’

Police in Zhengzhou city have detained four Foxconn staff on charges of breach of trust, according Taiwanese officials.

11 Oct 2024 - 10:08AM

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Apple’s Tim Cook visits China as reliance on Chinese suppliers endures

Cook shows up at an Apple Store in Chengdu as part of the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Opinion | Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story

Taiwan’s Foxconn expands AI hardware push with OpenAI deal

Nvidia and Apple supplier Foxconn posts 17% rise in third-quarter profit

Net profit for Nvidia’s biggest server maker and Apple’s top iPhone assembler hits US$1.89 billion, higher than US$1.62 billion estimate.

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce

Beyond factory walls, the typhoon interrupts vital transport and logistics arteries connecting China to global markets.

Foxconn unit invests US$30 million in Hong Kong-based Robocore

The capital injection is expected to help Robocore accelerate growth and expand into new markets.

Foxconn shifts focus away from iPhones as AI servers drive growth

Foxconn’s revenue from making AI servers and other cloud and networking products surpasses smart consumer products for the first time.

Japan’s SoftBank to invest US$2 billion in Intel as part of US push

SoftBank has been expanding its US footprint, including a recent deal to buy Foxconn’s electric vehicle plant in Ohio.

Apple supplier Foxconn partners with motor maker Teco to build AI data centres

The move underscores Foxconn’s efforts to grow beyond its traditional role as Apple’s main iPhone assembler, as it taps opportunities in AI.

Apple is shipping nearly all of its India-made iPhones to the US

From March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth US$3.2 billion from India, with an average of 97 per cent shipped to the US.

Foxconn expects robust revenue growth from AI despite US tariffs

The world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer plans to enter the US market by the end of this year, chairman Young Liu says.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls US ban on H20 AI chip ‘deeply painful’

Huang said AI was a ‘full-stack thing’, which meant protecting one layer at the expense of everything else was ‘nonsensical’.

Foxconn invests in India as Apple moves iPhone production from China

Apple is looking to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India by the end of 2026.

Nvidia’s Huang teases new Taiwan office, supercomputer plans in Computex speech

In his keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Jensen Huang said Nvidia secured a lease for a new property and is partnering with local firms, including Foxconn.

China’s industrial robot output soars, as Unitree and UBTech take lead

Production of industrial robots in April outpaced increases seen in earlier months amid national enthusiasm around the technology.

Trump says he told Apple CEO: ‘I don’t want you building in India’

The comments throw a wrench into Apple’s plan to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India rather than China.

US smartphone shipments jumped 30% in March on tariff anticipation

Manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung increased shipments ahead of US announcement of new tariffs.

Foxconn profit surges amid AI boom, but trade tensions cloud outlook

The Taiwanese iPhone assembler and AI server maker reported a 91 per cent leap in first-quarter profit but downgraded its full-year outlook.

Chinese plant resumes hiring after Trump spares iPhones from tariffs

The move highlights the disruption caused by the new US tariffs to Apple’s supply chain.

Foxconn’s profits drop as iPhone sales falter, but AI boom offers hope

The Taiwanese company reported a 13 per cent fall in net income, worse than analysts’ estimates for a 2 per cent gain.

Foxconn launches traditional Chinese LLM for AI-driven manufacturing

With the training process powered by 120 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the Foxconn model claims to excel in mathematics and logical reasoning.

Foxconn breaks ground on new China headquarters in EV push

The move marks a major step by the Apple contractor to diversify its business into EVs, semiconductors, robots and other areas.

Consumer firms plunge in value as AI, chips ascend: Hurun China 500

Technology firms dominate the list of China’s 500 most valuable private companies, as consumer-goods and healthcare providers drop.

Nvidia CEO concludes whirlwind Taiwan tour after key meetings

Jensen Huang met top industry leaders, including TSMC founder Morris Chang and Foxconn chairman Liu Young-way.

UBTech Robotics aims to revolutionise Foxconn’s iPhone factories in China

UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ to deploy more robots in the iPhone maker’s factories.

Foxconn invests in EV battery plant in China’s iPhone city

The US$82 million capital injection marks the Taiwanese giant’s latest foray into the electric-vehicle sector.

iPhone maker Foxconn partners with Nvidia on AI-driven factories

Foxconn is partnering with Nvidia to develop so-called digital twins to help build advanced facilities around the world.

Mainland China detains four Taiwanese employees at ‘iPhone city’

Police in Zhengzhou city have detained four Foxconn staff on charges of breach of trust, according Taiwanese officials.

Opinion | Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story