Are you able to consider that we’re only some weeks away from Apple’s introduction of the
iPhone 16 sequence? The meeting traces at Apple’s contract producers are buzzing and whirling 24/7 assembling
iPhone 16 sequence fashions.
According to the English language website Business Korea, Foxconn has added 50,000 new employees at its Zhengzhou manufacturing unit. It feels as if the discharge of the
iPhone 15 sequence simply occurred yesterday and there will probably be a tinge of disappointment as my
iPhone 15 Pro Max will not be one of many 4 present fashions.
Final month we informed you that
Foxconn had started recruiting new workers for its Zhengzhou plant which occurs to be its largest manufacturing unit and thus the most important iPhone manufacturing fab. On social media and job websites on-line, Foxconn provided pay of 25 yuan per hour (equal to 4,800 gained 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 provided in June.
We have already entered the height season for iPhone shipments which runs from this month by 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 sequence fashions in the course of the second half of 2023. With the Zhengzhou facility the most important iPhone manufacturing manufacturing unit worldwide, and Apple anticipating a ten% enhance 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 large’s Apple Intelligence AI initiative. The latter requires 8GB of RAM to run and subsequently will solely work on the
iPhone 15 Pro,
iPhone 15 Professional Max and all 4
iPhone 16 fashions. These are the iPhones that sport 8GB of RAM. Moreover, the
iPhone 16 Pro and
iPhone 16 Pro 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 and the
iPhone 15 Professional Max‘s 6.7-inch show.
Hmm, that new Foxconn meeting line employee seems to be acquainted, would not he?
Whereas Foxconn continues to construct the iPhone and different Apple merchandise in China, the Taiwanese firm can be planning to make the most of its manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur, India to construct the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max. This is able to be the primary time that Apple has had any present iPhone Professional fashions inbuilt India. Apple nonetheless hopes to ultimately transfer all manufacturing out of China in order that the corporate would not get damage 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 sequence Extremely-wide digicam will probably 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 will probably be a barely greater spec’d model of the A18. Each chipsets will probably be constructed by TSMC utilizing its second-gen 3nm course of node. (N3E).
