Tech scroll AsiaFoxconn shrinks Android arm and relocates staff as orders dry up
Tech giant shifts resources to newly launched automotive electronics
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.