With no 'China burden' like on Apple, Google to stop making Pixel devices in the country

Google is moving its production of Pixel smartphones, watches and wireless earbuds outside of China starting next year, reports Nikkei Asia. The development comes amidst ongoing Washington-Beijing tensions. The US tech giant has been aggressively expanding capacity in Vietnam and India to lower its dependency on China. “The successful development and production of high-end Pixel phones in Vietnam this year … gave Google the confidence to proceed with the 2027 timeline for moving all Pixel production out of China,” the report says citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.“Compared with Apple, Google has no burden [to leave China] as it does not sell Pixel phones in the Chinese market,” said one of the sources as quoted in the report.