Despite rumors claiming the contrary, there will be no delay in the launch of the iPhone 8, claims China’s Economic Daily News.
Citing sources in the downstream supply chain, the newspaper says new iPhones will start selling in October, and not as late as 2018 as some reports have claimed.
The new report cites sources at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, printed circuit board makers Zhen Ding Technology and Kinsus Interconnect Technology, and battery supplier Simplo Technology.
TSMC will reportedly begin production on the new A11 chip on June 10, and will deliver the finished components to Apple in the second half of July. Zhen Ding and Kinsus both seemingly ran into early problems with yield rate of their printed circuit boards, but managed to overcome them. They will reportedly begin volume production in June.
In addition, iPhone assemblers Foxconn Technology, Wistron and Pegatron are all ramping up recruitment and training of employees to put together the new handsets.
Yes, there’s plenty that can go wrong between now and October, but it’s certainly promising to hear that we won’t be waiting ages to get our hands on the new iPhone.
Want more info about the upcoming phones? Read this: Everything we think we know about the iPhone 8.
Via: Digitimes
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
5 responses to “iPhone 8 delay? Nah, it will probably arrive the same time as usual”
These rumors of “delays” appear like clockwork every single year as the usual launch date of the new model iPhone nears, and as competitors release their new devices. Go back and check the archives of Cultofmac and you will find them. And each year those rumors are proven to be false and just click-bait and even designed to push people off of waiting for the next iPhone onto some other phone instead. It is boring to read these fake rumors every year, I wish sites like Cultofmac would just ignore them.
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Should come with a Lucite cabinet to store it inside of.
At least until science can come up with a transparent material to replace ordinary glass.
When does the new LG Chocolate come out?