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Following a report indicating that production would begin ahead of schedule, longtime Apple supplier TSMC has now officially kicked off production of...
Taiwanese chip-maker company MediaTek is expecting to post another sequential increase of 10-18 per cent in revenues for the second quarter of 2021. The company has also raised its internal revenue growth and gross margin projections for 2021 to 40 per cent and 44-46 per cent, respectively, DigiTimes reported, citing industry sources. The company has already begun talks with its upstream supply chain partners about capacity support for 2022 and has achieved satisfactory results so far, the sources said. MediaTek reported consolidated revenues of NT $108.03 billion for the first quarter, up...
Apple Ramping Up M1 Production as New 12.9-inch iPad Pro Expected to Reach Five Million Shipments in 2021 Thursday April 22, 2021 2:19 am PDT by Sami Fathi Apple is seemingly expecting high demand for its new M1-powered iPad Pro as the company has asked its main chip supplier, TSMC, to ramp up production of the chip for its new iPad, and newer Mac computers, according to industry sources cited by The M1 chip first started shipping in November, and amid an ongoing global chip shortage, demand for the chip is even more pronounced thanks to the new iPad Pro. DigiTimes reports that TSMC h...
iPhone 13: More evidence for energy-efficient LTPO screens Pro versions of 2021 iPhone will feature LTPO screens offering up to 20% better energy efficiency and (probably) better battery life. By Macworld staff | 89 mins ago According to a new paywalled report from DigiTimes (quoted by MacRumors), the two Pro models of the iPhone 13 to be released in late 2021 will be equipped with LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) screens. The advantage of LTPO monitors is that they are between 15 and 20% more energy-efficient than the screens used in current iPhones, which can lead to longer batt...
New iPad Pro will be released 'within weeks' Updated iPad Pro with mini-LED and 5G now looks nailed on for appearance at Apple's 23 March spring event. By Mikael Markander | 10 Mar 21 According to sources cited by the Taiwanese site Digitimes (paywalled article), Apple will launch the fifth-generation iPad Pro in a matter of weeks. The iPad Pro will probably be the first Apple product with a screen based on mini-LED, a new kind of backlight that provides better colour reproduction, deeper blacks, higher contrast and greater dynamic range. It's believed, however, that only the 12.9in model wil...