Gigabyte to start manufacturing motherboards in India, plans to add monitors and laptops soon

Gigabyte, a Taiwan-based company, has announced that it has entered into a "strategic contract manufacturing partnership" for local motherboard manufacturing in India. According to Gigabyte, the new manufacturing initiative will help further consolidate the brand's market position in India while easing logistics and upholding strict production and performance standards.

Gigabyte offers a wide range of motherboards featuring Intel and AMD chipsets across the Aorus, Aero, Gaming, Ultra Durable, Eagle, and AI TOP series. At the moment, the focus is to promote local manufacturing of motherboards with plans to expand into monitors and laptops in the near future.

Graphics cards and other PC hardware are not part of this initiative just yet. Gigabyte hasn't divulged who is its contract manufacturer and which exact motherboard SKUs would be made under this initiative.

With this, Gigabyte is joining a steadily growing list of OEMs taking advantage of the Government of India's flagship "Make in India" initiative, which aims to boost local manufacturing, increase foreign direct investment (FDI), enhance skills, and create jobs across 27 manufacturing and service sectors including electronics and IT.

Make in India's lower duties and a generously endowed production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme seem to be quite lucrative for consumer tech makers eyeing manufacturing in the country, with analysts projecting the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market in India to reach $80 billion by FY27.

Apple makes and exports a significant number of iPhone 17 Pro models in India alongside China while the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air are fully assembled in India via Foxconn, Pegatron, and Tata Electronics. Apple's exports from India stood at $12.8 billion in 2024.

Other prominent smartphone OEMs basing their production in India include Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Motorola, and Lava.

On the laptop front, HP partnered with Dixon Technologies' subsidiary Padget Electronics and VVDN Technologies earlier in 2025 to assemble laptops, desktop PCs, and all-in-ones. Apart from HP, Dixon also produces laptops for Lenovo and Acer.

Asus, too, gets a good number of Vivobook, ExpertBook, and desktop PCs assembled in India via Dixon, Flex, and VVDN Technologies.

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