They will mainly be engineers responsible for
software research and development on the Linux-based open source
operating system and cloud computing at a software technology park in
the southern city of Kaohsiung, the tech giant said in a statement.
Hon
Hai, better known by its trade name Foxconn and a major supplier to
Apple, announced the Mozilla tie-up earlier this month as it looks to
move beyond manufacturing services which yield low margins.
Under
the agreement, Hon Hai will work with Mozilla to promote the non-profit
organisation's Firefox operating system. It plans to produce five
devices running on Firefox.
The operating
system will allow HTML5 apps to communicate directly with the hardware
and is being developed by Mozilla as an open web mobile operating
system.
Hon Hai has said that it hopes the platform will become another option for clients aside Android and Apple's iOS.
Foxconn
is the world's largest computer component manufacturer and assembles
products for Apple including the iPhone plus Sony and Nokia.
The
group employs about one million workers in China, roughly half of them
based in its main facility in Shenzhen bordering Hong Kong.
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