There are 20 million units only iPhone X Year? |
A report on the limited stock of iPhone X has emerged since some time ago. Now, in a recent report, Apple is mentioned only prepared 20 million units of the iPhone X for the year, less than the predictions of the research firm KGI Securities.
Citing a report from Nikkei Asian Review , Friday (10/27/2017), initial shipments of the iPhone X predicted only about 20 million units, half of the amount planned for this year. Apple will hold a pre-order iPhone X on 27 October, while sales at stores online and offline on 3 November 2017.
The reduction is due to Apple's unit has not successfully completed a variety of technical issues with the components needed for face recognition feature, Face ID, the iPhone X . The complexity of the production process iPhone X has occurred since a few months ago.
iPhone X is a smartphone Apple's first use of the OLED display and does not have the "Home" physical. In the period of mass production, reported no production defects in gluing processor for OLED panels. Until the end, most of these problems can be solved around July 2017.
After that, new problems arise regarding facial authentication module assembly. Apple manufacturing partners are only able to increase first pass yield (FPY) towards the end of September 2017.
To increase the rate of production, Apple is believed to have started negotiations with a number of manufacturing the additional production of certain components. These negotiations are expected to increase the production rate iPhone X quickly.