iPhone 12 Mass Production Facing Delays of Up to Two Months

iPhone 12 Mass Product Facing Delays of Up to Two Months

Posted past on Jul 01, 2022 in iPhone 12, News

Recent reports surrounding the iPhone 12 lineup have claimed that Apple's supply-chain has defenseless up to the production delay and that the devices are on track for a September or early October launch. A Nikkei report, nonetheless, claims the opposite and says that Apple tree is pushing its suppliers to reduce production delays so that the launch of the 5G iPhone 12 lineup is not delayed past up to 2 months.

The report says that there could be a possible delay of four weeks to up to two months in the mass production of all the four 5G iPhone 12 models. The filibuster is existence caused past countries being in lockdown and the lack of labor workforce. Apple has been trying to aggressively cut down on delays so that it does not face the "worst-instance scenario of postponing the launch until 2022" as per i of the sources. Apple and its suppliers are working overtime to ensure that they are able to launch the iPhone as per the regular timeframe.

"What the progress looks similar now is months of filibuster in terms of mass production, simply Apple is doing everything information technology can to shorten the postponement. There'south a chance that the schedule could still be moved ahead," one of the sources told Nikkei.

Seemingly, the development schedule of the 5G mmWave iPhone 12 model for the U.South. market is currently two months behind schedule. The other 5G models featuring sub-6GHz connectivity are around 1.5 months behind schedule. The company finished the Engineering Verification Tests (EVTs) for the iPhone 12 lineup by the end of June, a month later than its usual timeframe. Other tests including Blueprint Verification Tests and Production Verification Tests are withal to be completed.

With Califonia'southward "shelter at domicile" restrictions eased in June, Apple's hardware development team returned to work allowing some of the deadlines to be moved upward and speed the last configuration of the new iPhones. However, one of the sources still claims that despite the aggressive schedule, "some final iPhone associates could be delayed to early October." He also did not rule out the possibility of boosted delays equally a lot of "tests going on. now and the final designs have non nevertheless been locked downward."

Apple had earlier placed an order for 100 million 5G iPhone 12 components, only after the pandemic set up it, the company has reduced the order to 80 one thousand thousand units. Information technology could further reduce the order volume depending on the market scenario. The visitor has also asked its suppliers to build 45 million units of older iPhones for the 2d half of 2022 in instance at that place is a delay in the launch of the iPhone 12.

[Via Nikkei]