Foxconn shrinks Android arm and relocates staff as orders dry up

Tech giant shifts resources to newly launched automotive electronics

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FIH manufactures Google's Pixel 3, shown here at its launch in Tokyo last year. Google is the only profitable smartphone contract for FIH, senior sources told Nikkei Asian Review. © Kyodo

LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- Foxconn's Android smartphone arm is scaling back its mobile business and moving into next generation automotive electronics in a bid to counter the impact of a deepening industry slump on the second tier brands that make up much of its client list.

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