In a new research note to clients, UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri reports that Apple’s iPhone production is up YOY with the company having built…
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Apple, others look to move production away from China; not an easy task
Apple, Google and Microsoft have looked to move some hardware production from China to other countries, including Vietnam and Thailand…
Apple supplier Foxconn’s revenue drops 18.13% YOY due to coronavirus
In the wake and continued midst of the COVID-19 coronavirus slowdown, Apple supplier Foxconn reported its biggest year-over-year revenue drop since 2013…
Apple supplier Skyworks sees no significant production disruptions from coronavirus
Skyworks, a chip supplier to Apple, said on Wednesday the coronavirus has not significantly disrupted its manufacturing operations…
Apple supplier Dialog Semiconductor sees Chinese chip supply chain near full capacity by month-end
Apple supplier Dialog Semiconductor said on Wednesday it expected Chinese chip supply chain and contract manufacturers to return to normal in Q2…
Apple supplier Qorvo lowers guidance due to COVID-19
Apple supplier Qorvo, maker of iPhone radio frequency chips, lowered its Q4 revenue expectations due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company said COVID-19…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Significant iPhone production won’t resume until Q2
According to a research note from Apple uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, iPhone production will not significantly improve until Q2 of 2020…
Apple CEO Cook optimistic China is getting the coronavirus under control
In an interview with Susan Li for FOX Business, Apple CEO Tim Cook say he sees China is getting the coronavirus under control and how Apple is…
Apple loses two key operations, supply chain executives
Apple has lost two key executives who worked in the manufacturing, supply chain, and operations group who were focused on the production of…
Thanks to the U.S.-China trade war, companies like Apple are better prepared for coronavirus
Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus, some U.S. companies find themselves better offn than they otherwise might have been due to the U.S.-China trade war…
China manufacturing reboots after coronavirus shutdown
Main manufacturing hubs in China’s east and south are seeing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers return to work as many parts of the country ease…
Apple supplier Hynix tells 800 workers to stay home over coronavirus fears
South Korean chipmaker and Apple supplier SK Hynix said on Thursday that 800 of its workers had quarantined themselves due to concerns over the coronavirus…
Apple moves some production from China to Taiwan due to coronavirus
Amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in China, Apple moves production of some of its top devices from China to Taiwan in order to diversify…
Samsung looks to profit from China virus woes afflicting Apple
Samsung Electronics stands to be a beneficiary of production problems in China due to the coronavirus outbreak. Apple on Monday warned…
Mobile World Congress cancellation is good news for Apple’s ‘iPhone SE 2’
sterday’s cancellation of the 2020 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could very well be good news for Apple’s “iPhone SE 2” launch…
Apple suppliers scramble to restart production in China while keeping vast factories coronavirus-free
Apple suppliers in China are scrambling to restart production. Foxconn’s main Longhua campus in Shenzhen is the size of 250 football fields…
Foxconn refutes Reuters report on restart timeline for Chinese factories
In a statement to the Taipei stock exchange, Taiwan’s Foxconn on Thursday refuted that recent Reuters reports on its plans to restart factories in China…
Coronavirus infects Apple’s Mac Pro delivery schedule
For at least a week, many custom iMac, iMac Pro, and MacBook Pro configurations have been facing longer-than-usual delivery estimates on Apple’s online store…
Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus outbreak
The 2020 Mobile World Congress has been canceled by GSMA due to fears surrounding the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. The decision to abandon…
Apple shares surge as Chinese factories accelerate post-coronavirus restarts
Following a report that Foxconn’s iPhone assembly plants will speed up their return to normal production, the market saw Apple shares surge …
Coronavirus effects on Apple to date
The 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to spread through China. Here’s a rundown of the effects on Apple due to the coronavirus so far…
Foxconn plans to resume 50% of output in virus-hit China by end of month
Foxconn plans to resume 50% of output in virus-hit China by end of February, as the major Apple-supplier reopens plants shut over the coronavirus outbreak…
JPMorgan: Coronavirus may be smaller risk to Chinese manufacturing than feared
The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak that killed at least 1,018 may be a smaller risk to Chinese manufacturing than feared, according to JPMorgan …
Nasdaq climbs to record as investors look past coronavirus
The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 clinched closing records on Monday as investors took heart in mostly solid U.S. fourth-quarter corporate earnings…
China’s Q1 smartphone sales may be cut in half due to coronavirus
Since many retail shops have closed for an extended period and production has yet to fully resume, China’s Q1 smartphone sales may plunge by as much as 50%…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Foxconn moves some iPhone assembly from China to India and Taiwan due to coronavirus
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says some Foxconn iPhone assembly has been moved from China to India and Taiwan due to the coronavirus impact on production…
iPhone assembler Foxconn restarts key China plant with 10% of workers
Apple’s largest iPhone assembler, Foxconn, has received approval from the Chinese government to resume production at a key plant in China…
China government blocks restart of Foxconn plants due to coronavirus
Apple iPhone assembler Foxconn’s plan to restart production on Feb. 10 has been called off by the gov’t in China due to the coronavirus outbreak…
Apple Stores in China won’t reopen as planned due to coronavirus
Apple employees have been notified by the company that Apple Stores in China won’t reopen as planned due to the coronavirus outbreak…
Foxconn warns staff to keep away from Shenzhen facility due to coronavirus
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., parent company of Apple assembler Foxconn, warned staff at its Shenzhen facility not to return to work…
China coronavirus death toll jumps to 563
The death toll from the 2019-nCoV coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise…
Foxconn sees full China production resuming late-February
Taiwan’s Foxconn aims to steadily ramp up operations at factories in China next week, but it could take between one to two weeks after that…
Foxconn to resume iPhone assembly on Feb. 10, quarantine workers
Foxconn plans a quarantine of up to two weeks for any employee that returns to work as a precautionary measure to curb the spread of 2019-nCoV coronavirus…
‘Fairly small impact’ on Foxconn iPhone output from virus outbreak so far
So far Foxconn has experienced a ‘fairly small impact’ from the virus outbreak as it shifted production to other countries…
Apple supplier Japan Display gets $920 million bailout
In a critical bailout for an Apple supplier that has been dependent on a series of publicly-funded rescues, Japan Display said on Friday it had inked a deal…
Apple asks suppliers to boost iPhone production by more than 10%
Apple has asked suppliers to make as many as 80 million iPhone units in the first half of 2020…
Asian suppliers warn Apple about potential Wuhan coronavirus impact
Apple suppliers warned that the Wuhan coronavirus affect could Apple. The over 10% increase vs. last year’s iPhone production that Apple recently…
Apple and Broadcom ink chip-supply deals worth $15 billion
Broadcom has disclosed two chip-supply deals that will provide components for Apple devices to be released through the middle of 2023…
Foxconn pledges to start up Wisconsin electronics plant this year
Foxconn founder Terry Gou pledged to start up a long-delayed electronics plant in Wisconsin this year. Gou said the plant will drive his company’s vision…
Foxconn’s Gou advises employees not to visit China as virus pandemic fears grow
Apple supplier Foxconn’s billionaire founder Terry Gou is advising employees not to visit China as the Wuhan virus outbreak stokes fears…
Apple supplier Pegatron plans production facilities in Vietnam
The latest Apple supplier to establish a presence in Vietnam is Taiwan’s Pegatron, which plans to set up production facilities in the Southeast Asian nation…
Much at stake Saturday in Taiwan’s presidential, parliamentary elections
Aside from its key role in the global supply chain as a high-tech manufacturer, mostly notably as an Apple Inc supplier, Taiwan is in a strategic location…
