Xiaomi, like the majority of manufacturers, subcontract device manufacturing to third party businesses such as Taiwanese contract manufacturer, Foxconn. From Xiaomi's perspective, this mitigates some of the risk of building their own devices and operations, instead allowing Xiaomi to concentrate on the design, software and integration of the hardware. Foxconn have built a successful business as being the manufacturing partner to a number of big names such as Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Dell, Amazon, Microsoft and Cisco.