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iPhone 16 manufacturing reduce by hundreds of thousands whereas iPhone SE 4 meeting will quickly begin

An investor be aware written for purchasers of banking agency Barclays was learn by 9to5Mac and in that be aware, Barclay’s analysts stated that Apple may need reduce manufacturing of the iPhone 16 collection by a whopping three million models this yr. The analysts got here to this conclusion by working by Apple’s provide chain and noticing that the corporate lowered its orders by the December quarter with a “key semiconductor” accomplice.

Barclays sees Apple delivery 51 million iPhone 16 collection models by the top of 2024

Operating by sell-through checks to see how how the brand new iPhone 16 collection has been promoting, Barclays says that in comparison with gross sales of the iPhone 15 line at the moment final yr, iPhone 16 gross sales are off 15% year-over-year. This decline would have an effect on shipments of the brand new iPhone 16 line for the September quarter. Barclays now requires Apple to ship 51 million models for the third calendar quarter which incorporates July, August, and September.

However the Barclays analysts blame the staggered Apple Intelligence rollout, the “restricted adoption of AI outdoors of the U.S.,” and the “lack of {hardware} differentiation” as the reason why the 2024 fourth-quarter ending in December “appears to be like more and more in danger” for shipments of the iPhone 16 line.

Talking about iPhone manufacturing, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stated on Tuesday that Apple is on the brink of begin manufacturing of a brand new iPhone codenamed V59. That mannequin is best often called the upcoming iPhone SE 4. The report provides that Apple might launch new iPad Air fashions similtaneously the iPhone SE 4. Final yr Apple launched the M2-powered iPad Air with each 11-inch and 13-inch variants mirroring the iPad Professional choices. 

This was performed as a result of the brand new OLED screens used on the M4 iPad Professional fashions precipitated Apple to lift the value of its top-of-the-line tablets and it needed to present customers a lower-priced choice for each an 11-inch and 13-inch iPad fashions. Gurman says that subsequent yr might convey refreshed variations of the iPad Air codenamed J607 and J637 for the 11-inch and 13-inch fashions, respectively. Individuals educated of the matter advised Gurman that Apple would even be engaged on a brand new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Air tablets with the codenames R307 (11-inch) and R308 (13-inch).

Will the iPhone SE 4 help Apple Intelligence?

As for the iPhone SE 4, it will likely be the primary new low-priced SE handset since 2022’s iPhone SE 3. The iPhone SE 4 will resemble the iPhone 14 which suggests that it’ll put off Contact ID in favor of Face ID. The 6.1-inch OLED show will probably be “edge-to-edge” and carry the notorious “notch” on prime of the display screen. The iPhone SE 4 is anticipated to hold 8GB of RAM and may very well be powered by the identical 3nm A18 software processor that runs the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
The explanation for equipping the iPhone SE 4 with twice the quantity of RAM used on the iPhone SE 3 and together with a chipset launched this yr is to permit the system to run Apple Intelligence, Apple’s AI initiative. Relying on the place Apple costs the iPhone SE 4 (the earlier mannequin began at $429 when launched in 2022), the iPhone SE 4 may very well be an enormous winner for Apple in sure markets like China and India the place low-priced Android telephones promote properly.

The brand new look iPhone SE 4 could have an enormous design shakeup. In any case, the iPhone SE 3 was primarily based on the look of the iPhone 8 which had a house button, Contact ID, and featured an LCD show. We anticipate to see the iPhone SE 4 launched early subsequent yr, presumably through the first quarter. However earlier than all of this takes place subsequent yr, we might see a brand new iPad mini, codenamed J410, hit the market by the top of this yr. The final iPad mini launched was the sixth-generation mannequin on September 24, 2021.

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