Samsung Electronics of South Korea plans to begin producing laptops at its Noida facility in India next month, according to Mint, citing two people familiar with the matter.

According to the report, Samsung's Noida factory is currently dedicated to phone production, but it has been expanded to house a new laptop manufacturing unit with an annual capacity of 60,000 to 70,000 units.

"Samsung will begin producing laptop computers here." The Noida plant, the company's largest mobile phone manufacturing facility, will house the additional lines that will be used to make laptops, according to one of the people cited above.

According to the report, the person stated that the laptop manufacturing capacity required an investment of approximately Rs 100-200 crore.

Separately, the Economic Times reported in its September 25 edition that global hardware firms have intensified their discussions with Indian companies that have applied for the revised production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme to establish an ecosystem for manufacturing notebooks, desktops, and servers in India - and thus contributing to the federal goal of 70% local output in three years for these items.

According to industry executives, Asus is working with Flextronics of the United States, which has applied for the revised PLI scheme. HP is currently served by the contract manufacturer.

Similarly, Taiwan-based Acer stated that it is in the advanced stages of expanding its manufacturing presence in the country. According to reports, HP and Lenovo are also in talks with Dixon about increasing local production. Notably, both firms already have manufacturing operations in India.