{"id":406705,"date":"2017-09-25T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/25\/truedepth-slowing-down-iphone-x-production\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:32:13","slug":"truedepth-camera-system-is-primary-reason-for-slow-iphone-x-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/truedepth-camera-system-is-primary-reason-for-slow-iphone-x-production\/","title":{"rendered":"TrueDepth Camera System is Primary Reason for Slow iPhone X Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a report claiming Apple&#8217;s suppliers are shipping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/25\/apple-slows-down-iphone-x-part-shipments\/\">only about 40 percent<\/a> of the components originally planned for initial production of the iPhone X, a new report suggests the TrueDepth camera is the primary bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/truedepth-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-592110\"\/><br \/>The word comes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said the facial recognition system is &#8220;far more complex&#8221; than those on competing devices, which is making it challenging for Apple to achieve mass production.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from Kuo&#8217;s research note obtained by MacRumors:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>TrueDepth camera may be main production bottleneck of iPhone X ramp.<\/strong> The 3D sensing (TrueDepth camera) on iPhone X is composed of a structured-light system, time-of-flight system and a front-facing camera, which represents a far more complex structure than those of rivals. It will therefore be harder to achieve mass production. While we project iPhone X will see output ramp up meaningfully in mid\/ late October, tight supply may only start to ease in 1H18F due to strong demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kuo said shipments of iPhone X components will likely ramp up in mid to late October. Given pre-orders begin October 27, with in-store availability starting November 3, all signs point towards the iPhone X being in extremely short supply.<\/p>\n<p>Kuo believes iPhone X pre-orders have the potential to exceed 40-50 million units, so it&#8217;s clear the device <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/15\/kgi-iphone-x-supply-demand-balance-2018\/\">won&#8217;t achieve supply-chain balance<\/a> for quite awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a report claiming Apple&#8217;s suppliers are shipping only about 40 percent of the components originally planned for initial production of the iPhone X, a new report suggests the TrueDepth camera is the primary bottleneck. The word comes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said the facial recognition system is &#8220;far more complex&#8221; than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-406705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}