Apple’s most vital assembling partner, Foxconn Technology Group, has reassured financial investors it can even now get the most recent or newest 5G-enabled iPhones ready for a fall launch, regardless of the worldwide COVID-19 change.
Apple is probably a year behind its two biggest rivals – Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies – in presenting a 5G-capable handset. Toward the beginning of the year, the organization set an aggressive target for the release of a 5G iPhone, instructing mobile suppliers to get ready to make up to 100 million units of the new gadgets for 2020 and planning four unique models of the handsets.
Taiwan-based Foxconn, which makes the vast majority of the world’s iPhones, struggled through much of February after the COVID-19 outbreak delayed the return of the countless labourers, it expected to assemble iPhones and other electronics products in China.
Foxconn Technology Group is working with Apple’s engineers to compensate for some recent setbacks, says Alex Yang, Foxconn’s investor relations chief. In any case, he alerts that “if there’s an extra delay within the next few weeks, months, at that point you most likely need to reconsider launching time. It’s still possible”
Generally, trial assembly starts in June to assist to resolve any production issues, then large-scale manufacturing commences in August so that the phones are ready for a September release. Of course, Apple needs to dispatch on time because it must catch up to the competition within the 5G race.