New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Indian electronics manufacturing services, or EMS, company Syrma SGS plans to start making motherboards for laptops with an aim to improve profitability and make it eligible for government incentives, its top executive said.

Syrma SGS currently assembles laptops for Japan's DynaBook (formerly Toshiba and now owned by Sharp), and Taiwan's MSI in India. It is in talks with these companies for motherboard manufacturing.

With this, Syrma, the country's third-largest EMS company, will become among the first few among its domestic peers to make computer motherboards domestically, a step towards value addition in India's efforts in electronics making.

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