Half Apple cut production of the iPhone X because of low demand media

KIEV. 30 Jan. UNN. Apple doubled – from 40 to 20 million cut scheduled for January-March this year, the production plan of the new smartphone iPhone X due to low demand, reports UNN with reference to the Nikkei.

According to the publication, the company has told suppliers of components, among which the Japanese company.

It is noted that the main reason for the revision of the strategy become weak sales of its flagship model in the holiday period at the end of last year on the main markets: in Europe, China and the United States. As a result, if in the beginning of sales iPhone X in November, Apple’s suppliers were unable to perform the orders, now, the warehouses have accumulated a large number of collected equipment.

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The reduction of the release of the iPhone X have a great effect on producers who collaborate with the company. In particular, it will affect Japanese companies Murata Manufacturing, Kyocera, Sony, and TDK. They offer the Apple Board, camera sensor and battery.

At the same time, the production of the cheaper models of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will remain at the previously planned level of about 30 million units for the period from January to March.

As previously reported UNN, Apple has confirmed that the critical the vulnerability of processors, which became known yesterday, applies to all models of iMac and iPhone. This is stated in the statement on the website of the company. Earlier the experts found in Intel, AMD and ARM defects, through which the normal user program can “see” the structure of the protected part of the kernel memory and is able to detect the storage location of confidential information.