The Nikkei report said Apple had already begun negotiations with other suppliers to make the problematic components. Photo: AFPLondon: Initial shipments of Apple Inc.’s new iPhone X will total 20 million units this year, Japanese news service Nikkei reported, without saying how it got the information. Nikkei said Apple is struggling to solve technical issues with parts of the phone that support its new face authentication feature. Earlier on Tuesday AMS AG, an Austrian-based electronic components company that is an Apple supplier, released sales forecasts that analysts interpreted as an indication fears about weak shipments of the iPhone X were misplaced. Both AMS and Dialog Semiconductor PLC pared gains following the Nikkei report.

Source: Mint October 24, 2017 12:11 UTC