Taipei – Apple is urging Pull suppliers to build a 2.5 million mBook laptop powered by its home-designed CPU by February, as California tech giant Intel is rapidly cutting its reliance on chips, sources told Nikkei Asia.
This initial production order of the first MBBook to use the MacPal Silicon Central Processing Unit is about 20% of the total MacBook shipment for 2019, which came in at 12.6 million units, sources said.
Apple Play has also placed strong orders for older models of iPhones to meet the shortage of its 5G lineup, which suffered a month-long delay in production due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The US tech giant will launch other MBK models using its own CPU in the second quarter of next year, replacing Intel’s microprocessors, the sources added. Apple Play has said it intends to completely cut off the use of Intel’s standard CPU, which is also used by rivals HP, Dell, Lenovo and Asustech for their computers, in its M2Bbook lineup in two years.
The Cupertino-based tech giant will host a launch online launch event for the Apple Pal Silicon M Bbook next Tuesday, the same week it will begin shipping the late 5G iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max – Oct. Kto. On the 13th. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, the other two models, started shipping on October 23rd.
As of Wednesday, if the order is placed online, the U.S. The waiting time for the iPhone 12 Pro 128GB model in the market was 20 days, while the waiting time for the same model in the Chinese market was two to three weeks, according to Apple’s website.
To fill the space on the shelves, Apple Play has asked suppliers to produce more than 20 million units of the iPhone 11, iPhone SE and iPhone XR handset from October during the holiday shopping season and early next year. More than a quarter of the orders placed by Apple Pal for the new iPhone 12 series this year are equivalent to about 75 million to 80 million units, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Any iPhone 11, iPhone SE and iPhone XR handsets assembled after October will not come with a charger or wired earphones, the sources added. The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, meanwhile, have reached the end of their production life and will no longer be manufactured, they said.
“The iPhone 11’s speed is surprisingly strong and it’s on. But that’s not the case for the Pro and Pro Max,” an executive-level source told Nikkei.
“The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max have almost time [to stop production]Another person with direct knowledge of the matter said: “Building these two models will” affect sales of the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, “while the specs of the iPhone 11 are different enough to avoid this issue, the source added.
A third source said that the order for the iPhone 11, a flagship phone unveiled last September, and the iPhone SE introduced this spring is priced at around 10 million units, a third source said. “Older models are really better than expected.”
Both the new MacBook and the older iPhone models made in October will still be manufactured in China, people said.
Apple Play did not respond to a request for comment by Nikkei Asia.
It’s been a challenging year for Apple Pal. U.S. The tech giant has high hopes for its first 5G iPhone, but the development process and production were significantly affected by the global epidemic. Complete play had to rely heavily on remote conferencing, expensive and secret distributions of samples and its suppliers to complete the critical testing procedures for the 5G iPhone.
The company will also face geographical uncertainties in the Chinese market due to Washington’s relentless crackdown on US-China tech warriors and Apple’s biggest Chinese rival Huawei Technologies. U.S. And China’s revenue, Apple’s third-largest market after Europe, fell 29% to ળામાં 7.9 billion in the same quarter last year, the lowest level since 2014.
Apple lost its No. 2 position in the global smartphone market to Huawei in 2019, and Xiaomi recently knocked it out of the top three in the September quarter. The long-awaited launch of the 5G iPhone 12 between the holiday season could help the company bounce back in the final quarter of this year, but new waves of COVID-19 in Europe and the US are boosting consumer confidence and the global economic outlook. .
Like its latest iPhone processor chips, Apple’s latest CPU for the MBQbook is made by a US company, but the world’s largest contract is made by chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and is manufactured by TSMC’s most advanced 5-nanometer chip manufacturing. , Sources said.
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