Are you able to imagine that we’re only some weeks away from Apple’s introduction of the
iPhone 16 collection? The meeting traces at Apple’s contract producers are buzzing and whirling 24/7 assembling
iPhone 16 collection fashions.
In accordance with the English language web site Enterprise Korea, Foxconn has added 50,000 new employees at its Zhengzhou manufacturing facility. It feels as if the discharge of the
iPhone 15 collection simply occurred yesterday and there might be a tinge of disappointment as my
iPhone 15 Professional Max will now not be one of many 4 present fashions.
Final month we advised you that
Foxconn had began recruiting new employees for its Zhengzhou plant which occurs to be its largest manufacturing facility and thus the most important iPhone manufacturing fab. On social media and job websites on-line, Foxconn supplied pay of 25 yuan per hour (equal to 4,800 received or $3.52 U.S. {Dollars}) and added a bonus of seven,500 yuan ($1,046.51 USD) up from the 6,000 yuan bonus supplied in June.
We have already entered the height season for iPhone shipments which runs from this month by way of the tip of the 12 months.
Apple is hoping to ship 90 million
iPhone 16 models throughout this era, up 10% over final 12 months’s deliveries. Final 12 months, Apple shipped 81 million
iPhone 15 collection fashions throughout the second half of 2023. With the Zhengzhou facility the most important iPhone manufacturing manufacturing facility worldwide, and Apple anticipating a ten% improve in shipments, it’s no shock to see that Foxconn employed extra employees.
Causes to count on a rise in
iPhone 16 shipments this 12 months in comparison with
iPhone 15 shipments final 12 months embody the tech big’s Apple Intelligence AI initiative. The latter requires 8GB of RAM to run and due to this fact will solely work on the
iPhone 15 Professional,
iPhone 15 Professional Max and all 4
iPhone 16 fashions. These are the iPhones that sport 8GB of RAM. Moreover, the
iPhone 16 Professional and
iPhone 16 Professional Max will sport bigger 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch shows, respectively. That’s up from the 6.1-inch
iPhone 15 Professional display screen and the
iPhone 15 Professional Max‘s 6.7-inch show.
Hmm, that new Foxconn meeting line employee appears to be like acquainted, does not he?
Whereas Foxconn continues to construct the iPhone and different Apple merchandise in China, the Taiwanese firm can also be planning to make the most of its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur, India to construct the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max. This may be the primary time that Apple has had any present iPhone Professional fashions in-built India. Apple nonetheless hopes to finally transfer all manufacturing out of China in order that the corporate does not get harm if the U.S. brings again tariffs on imports from China.
The iPhone 16 Professional will get the Tetraprism periscope lens that debuted on final 12 months’s iPhone 15 Professional Max with an optical zoom of 3x. The Professional collection Extremely-wide digital camera might be backed by a 48MP sensor. We count on the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Plus to hold a 3nm A18 utility processor (AP) whereas the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max are geared up with the A18 Professional AP which might be a barely greater spec’d model of the A18. Each chipsets might be constructed by TSMC utilizing its second-gen 3nm course of node. (N3E).
