02.10.2012 16:20 Uhr, Quelle: MacNN

In-cell touchscreen production improving for iPhone 5

Productions yields of in-cell touchscreens for the iPhone 5 are improving, and imposing less of a burden on manufacturing the phone, according to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, citing supply chain checks. The screens have regularly been blamed for Apple's inability to keep up with demand. Now, however, the main issue is said to be just the complexity of building the 5, since the product is extremely minimalist and cased in aluminum and glass. Apple, moreover, "has very high standards where it aims to produce each model to be an exact replica where variance is measured in microns," Wu claims.

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