Luxshare, officially Luxshare Precision Industry Co.,Ltd and also known as Luxshare-ICT. is a Chinese electronic components manufacturer.

History

Wang Laichun is the company's chairwoman, and co-founder. Wang founded Luxshare after ten years at

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. Her brother Wang Laishen is Luxshare's vice chairman and is also ex-Foxconn. Wang Laichun's leadership style is seen as similar to Foxconn's

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. Luxshare was founded in 2004 in

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, China. The company designs and manufacturers computer cables; it is also a key assembler of

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for Apple Inc. The company was listed publicly on the SME board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2010. In 2020, Luxshare became an iPhone assembler after acquiring two iPhone assembly plants from

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. In 2022, Luxshare was accused by Taiwanese prosecutors of stealing trade secrets. They were alleged to have poached much of competitor

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's China based research and development team, this combined with the theft of trade secrets from Catcher is alleged to have allowed Luxshare to rapidly enter Apple's supply chain. During the

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, Luxshare was reported by ''

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'' to gain an additional foothold in

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's supply chain following protests at a

factory in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone.

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