{"id":948497,"date":"2025-07-22T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948497"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:31:19","slug":"rare-earths-shortage-hits-foxconn-unit-apple-airpods-production-in-india-faces-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/rare-earths-shortage-hits-foxconn-unit-apple-airpods-production-in-india-faces-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare earths shortage hits Foxconn unit; Apple AirPods production in India faces hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Production of Apple AirPods has been hampered at Foxconn\u2019s Telangana plant due to shortage of dysprosium, a direct result of China\u2019s clampdown on the export of rare earth metals, said people aware of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) factory is located at Kongara Kalan, about 45 km from Hyderabad. FIT, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, is a core subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production of Apple AirPods has been hampered at Foxconn\u2019s Telangana plant due to shortage of dysprosium, a direct result of China\u2019s clampdown on the export of rare earth metals, said people aware of the matter. The Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) factory is located at Kongara Kalan, about 45 km from Hyderabad. FIT, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, is a core subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948497","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=948497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}