According to Nikkei Asia, sources said that as Apple hopes to quickly reduce its dependence on Intel chips, the technology giant is asking suppliers to produce 2.5 million units with its own design by February CPU with MacBook laptop.
According to people familiar with the matter, the initial production orders for the first batch of MacBooks using Apple Silicon processors are equivalent to nearly 20% of the total MacBook shipments in 2019, the latter being 12.6 million units.
Apple also placed strong orders for the old iPhone before the holiday season to make up for the shortage of its 5G series, which is facing a month-long production delay due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The source added that the American technology giant plans to launch other MacBook models using its own CPU in the second quarter of next year to further replace Intel’s microprocessors. Apple has stated that it intends to completely reduce the use of Intel standard CPUs in the MacBook product line within two years, and computers from competitors HP, Dell, Lenovo and Asus also use these CPUs.
Apple plans to hold an online conference for Apple Silicon MacBook next Tuesday. In the same week, Apple will start shipping delayed 5G iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The other two models, iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, will be released on October 23. Shipment begins on the same day.
In order to fill the vacancies on the shelves, Apple has required suppliers to prepare more than 20 million iPhone 11, iPhone SE and iPhone XR phones from October to the end of the year for use during the holiday shopping season and early next year. A person with direct knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia that this is equivalent to more than a quarter of Apple’s orders for the new iPhone 12 series this year, which is about 75 to 80 million units.
The source added that any iPhone 11, iPhone SE and iPhone XR phones assembled after October will not be equipped with chargers or wired headsets. At the same time, they said that the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max have reached the end of their product life and will no longer be produced.
“The momentum of iPhone 11 is unexpectedly strong and has been going on. But this is not the case with Pro and Pro Max.” A senior executive told Nikkei reporters.
“It’s time for the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max to [discontinue],” said another person directly familiar with the matter. The source added that the continued production of these two models will “affect the sales of the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max”, and the iPhone 11 specifications are sufficient to avoid this problem.
The third source said that the orders for the iPhone 11, one of the flagship phones launched in September last year, and the cost-effective iPhone SE launched this spring, were close to 10 million units. “The orders for the old phones are indeed better than expected.”
The person said that the new MacBook and old iPhone produced in October will still be produced in China.
Naijatechnews.com learned that in 2019, Apple’s second place in the global smartphone market was taken away by Huawei, and Xiaomi recently squeezed it out of the top three in the September quarter. The long-awaited 5G iPhone 12 goes on sale during the holiday season, which may help the company rebound in the last quarter of this year, but the new wave of COVID-19 in Europe and the United States continues to affect consumer confidence and global economic prospects.
Sources said that, like the latest iPhone processor chip, Apple’s latest MacBook CPU is also designed by a US company, but produced by TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, and uses TSMC’s most advanced 5nm chip manufacturing technology
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