Electronics manufacturing companies agency Amber Enterprises India expects to start out manufacturing Chinese language smartphones beneath Oppo, OnePlus and Realme manufacturers from the March 2027 quarter and double the output within the second yr, a prime firm official stated.
‘We anticipate to start with round 8 million models in first yr’
Amber Enterprises India Government Chairman and CEO and whole-time director Jasbir Singh, in the course of the firm’s earnings name, stated that the agency expects to start out with manufacturing of 8 million models of Oppo group smartphone manufacturers and scale it twofold to round 16 million models within the second yr of operations.
“Our group is ready to foray into cellphones via a producing collaboration settlement with Oppo Mobiles India. The scope covers three manufacturers, Oppo, OnePlus and Realme. We’re heading in the right direction to start the trial manufacturing by quarter 4 of FY27 and business manufacturing to start quarter 1 of FY28,” he stated.
Amber has onboarded a chief working officer for the cell vertical.
“On the dimensions entrance, we anticipate to start with round 8 million models within the first yr, adopted by a calibrated phase-wise ramp-up, and anticipate to double to virtually 15-16 million within the second yr of operations,” Singh stated.
Vivo and Oppo have been began by China’s BBK Electronics, however these corporations declare to have impartial operations.
Oppo smartphones are additionally produced at Vivo’s manufacturing unit in Noida on the market in India.
Vivo is within the means of hiving off its plant to a three way partnership firm that it’s creating with Dixon Applied sciences.
Oppo transferring to Amber is an indicator that the Chinese language cell manufacturers, which emerged from a typical group, are transferring in direction of asset-light fashions by lowering their manufacturing publicity in India.
Vivo has confronted motion from the Enforcement Directorate, whereas Oppo has confronted motion from the Directorate of Income Intelligence on tax points.
Vivo has been main the Indian smartphone market when it comes to gross sales quantity. The corporate had 17.8 per cent market share, adopted by Samsung with 17.6 per cent and Oppo at third spot with 13.6 per cent share within the second quarter (Q2) of 2026, based on Counterpoint Analysis.
Vivo and Oppo group manufacturers, together with iQoo, Realme, and OnePlus, collectively garnered 45.6 per cent of the Indian smartphone market in Q2, 2026.
Speaking concerning the printed circuit board (PCB) enterprise, Singh stated there was compression in margin of the corporate of naked PCB amid a steep rise within the copper-clad laminate (CCL) prices.
He stated that the corporate has been passing on the rise in value to shoppers with some lag.
“CopperClad Laminate value is continuous to extend. It would carry on growing due to synthetic intelligence and knowledge centre necessities. There may be a variety of scarcity of Copperclad Laminate additionally. We’re in a position to cross on to the purchasers all the value will increase now we have,” he stated.
The corporate expects to arrange its CCL plant by 2029-30, Singh stated.