Inventec Appliances, a subsidiary of Taiwanese electronic contract manufacturer Inventec and currently the sole HomePod manufacturer, will only ship about 50,000 units of Apple's $349 Siri-driven wireless speaker by the end of this year.
If a new report from Bloomberg is to be trusted, Apple's marquee 3D facial recognition feature of iPhone X may not be as accurate as originally demonstrated.
Image sharpness and overall quality afforded by oxide flat panels found in Apple's notebooks and the latest iPad Pro models hasn't gone unnoticed with branded PC notebook vendors who are now following in Apple's footsteps, said the sources that spoke with DigiTimes.
For all the gloom and doom talk regarding Apple's ability to fulfill expectedly high iPhone X demand, a supplier dismissed speculation that the dot projector is stuck in a production hell.
Due to production woes with the dot projector and other TrueDepth camera components, Apple is now predicted to ship just 20 million iPhone X units in 2017, around half the planned number.
Apple has started to release more orders to AMD for high-end Vega GPUs needed for its upcoming 27-inch iMac Pro all-in-one desktop ahead of its scheduled launch in December.
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated his previous stance that production issues will severely impact early iPhone X supply, predicting that Apple will have just three million units of the OLED handset available at launch.
Yield rates for the important iPhone X components are finally beginning to improve, according to Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes.
iPhone X's TrueDepth system houses a laser light transmitter, receiver and other sensing equipment, but future models could pack those discreet modules into a single part.
Another significant bottleneck in mass production of the TrueDepth camera system for iPhone X has been removed with news that Taiwanese supplier Himax Technologies has now started shipments of a key Face ID component to Apple.
Apple's new TrueDepth camera in iPhone X uses a dot projector to achieve its magic and a new report claims that US-based laser diode supplier Lumentum is now the only company that has won orders from the Cupertino giant for that crucial part.
Android vendors have reportedly discovered just how complicated and difficult it is to reliably mass-manufacture cutting-edge depth sensors that iPhone X's Face ID relies upon, and have now delayed plans to use 3D-sensing camera technology in their own flagship devices.