Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro series production ratio rises to 60%: TrendForce

According to the report from TrendForce said that the production proportion of the two iPhone 14 Pro series has been increased from 50% to 60% in the initial plan, and it is not ruled out that it will continue to increase to 65% in the future.

The proportion of new phones in Apple’s shipments remains at 36%, while the 2022 full-year iPhone shipment target is 240 million units, an annual increase of 2.8%.

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TrendForce pointed out that while the U.S. keeps raising interest rates to curb inflation, it also weakens consumers’ disposable income, which will affect Apple’s production performance in the first quarter of 2023, adjusted to 52 million units, a 14% decrease year-on-year.

Moreover, looking forward to the iPhone 15 series, TrendForce said that Apple will still maintain four new models, and two of the Pro series will be equipped with upgraded processors.

In terms of specifications, in addition to the known Lightning interface being fully converted to Type-C, the Pro series has a great opportunity to upgrade the memory capacity to 8GB to match the new processor.

Furthermore, it continues to improve lens specifications, including upgrading the main lens. As for Apple’s self-developed 5G baseband, it will continue to use the Qualcomm baseband because the mmWave signal test results cannot meet the standard. It is expected that the new device in the year 2024 will be officially introduced the self-developed 5G baseband.

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