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Strong iPhone 13 Demand Sees Taiwan Suppliers Prioritize Apple Over Rivals

Strong iPhone 13 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-13/) demand in Taiwan and China has led Taiwanese component suppliers to prioritize production lines for Apple over rival Samsung and many Chinese mobile vendors, according to a new DigiTimes (https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20210927PD205.html) report.





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Taiwan-based makers of VCMs (voice coil motors), wire winding and other components of smartphone-use lens modules are giving priority to production for Apple, amid strong pre-sales of iPhone 13 series in China and Taiwan, according to industry sources.

The report states that Samsung's third-quarter sales this year fell short of expectations, while Chinese smartphone vendors including Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi have high inventory levels of components.





Apple's iPhones have reportedly taken over a large portion of Huawei's original market share since it was hit by U.S. sanctions, and Taiwan's component makers have high hopes for the ‌iPhone 13‌ series.





Analyst reports suggest (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/20/iphone-13-preorder-demand/) ‌iPhone 13‌ orders have seen strong early demand, with minimal near-term component headwinds for the devices suggesting lengthy delivery estimates are a result of high demand rather than low supply.





Apple is looking to boost initial production (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/13/apple-boosting-iphone-13-production/) of this year's ‌iPhone 13‌ models to 90 million units through the end of the year, an increase of up to 20% over the 75 million units of the iPhone 12 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-12/) series produced last year, according to Bloomberg.





<div class="center-wrap"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hundreds of people were seen running into a shopping mall in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province to buy the new iPhone. pic.twitter.com/coBPsTrQ1A (https://t.co/coBPsTrQ1A)</p>&mdash; South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) September 27, 2021 (https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1442413704772001792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>


China in particular has seen major interest in the latest iPhone (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/iphone/) launch, which in one case apparently caused a stampede (https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1442413704772001792) as people rushed a shopping mall to purchase one of the devices.<div class="linkback">Related Roundups: iPhone 13 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-13/), iPhone 13 Pro (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-13-pro/)</div><div class="linkback">Tag: digitimes.com (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/digitimes-com/)</div><div class="linkback">Buyer's Guide: iPhone 13 (Buy Now) (https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPhone-13), iPhone 13 Pro (Buy Now) (https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPhone-13-Pro)</div><div class="linkback">Related Forum: iPhone (https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/iphone.99)</div>
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