“Despite related components already entering into production, Apple’s iWatch is still unlikely to become available until 2015, as the device is still under engineering verification testing (EVT) stage and has to still go through production verification testing (PVT), according to sources from the upstream supply chain,” Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
“The sources pointed out that a product will need to first pass the PVT stage before entering to mass production,” Lee and Tsai report,” and between the EVT and PVT stages, Apple could still be change its design.”
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