{"id":1019117,"date":"2026-07-06T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019117"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:27:01","slug":"electronics-the-assembly-boom-the-component-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/electronics-the-assembly-boom-the-component-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics: The assembly boom, the component gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electronics exports hit a record nearly $48 billion in FY26, cementing the country\u2019s emergence as a global smartphone manufacturing hub. Smartphones alone accounted for over $31 billion of exports, driven by Apple\u2019s expanding manufacturing footprint and rising shipments to the US and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, the export success masks a deeper reality: much of the value inside those devices still comes from China. Semiconductor chips, display assemblies, camera modules, printed circuit board inputs, connectors, sensors, manufacturing equipment and several industrial inputs continue to be imported, underscoring the gap between assembling electronics and building a self-sustaining manufacturing ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electronics exports hit a record nearly $48 billion in FY26, cementing the country\u2019s emergence as a global smartphone manufacturing hub. Smartphones alone accounted for over $31 billion of exports, driven by Apple\u2019s expanding manufacturing footprint and rising shipments to the US and Europe. Yet, the export success masks a deeper reality: much of the value inside those devices still comes from China. Semiconductor chips, display assemblies, camera modules, printed circuit board inputs, connectors, sensors, manufacturing equipment and several industrial inputs continue to be imported, underscoring the gap between assembling electronics and building a self-sustaining manufacturing ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019137,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019117\/revisions\/1019137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}