iPad Deliveries Continue to Suffer as Apple Prioritizes iPhone Production

iPad Deliveries Keep to Suffer as Apple Prioritizes iPhone Production

Posted by on February 03, 2022 in Apple tree News

Although Apple claimed that it is catching up to its supply chain woes, a supply chain report claims that it continues to prioritize iPhone production over the iPad. This has caused commitment atomic number 82 times for the iPad to sideslip past the ii-month mark.

Nikkei Asia reports that Apple has an average nine-week lead time for customers purchasing an iPad. The lead time was ascertained by tracking delivery times for Apple products since November 2022 in 25 markets, including Cathay, the US, and Japan. The study adds that delivery lead times have improved from 55 days in December to l days for the 64GB model of the iPad.

During the recently held Q1 2022 earnings telephone call, Apple CFO Luca Maestri noted that supply concatenation difficulties withheld the company from achieving $130 billion in revenue — $six billion more than what it earned. He added that the iPad bore the burden of the supply chain difficulties. Cook attributed the 14 pct decline in the iPad's revenue contribution to "legacy nodes." He said the company expects a lower yet "pregnant" headwind from supply chain difficulties in the current quarter.

Research firm CCS Insight's senior manager of research Wayne Lam explains that the iPad requires several display drivers for its viii-inch screen. The drivers are produced at legacy nodes that are the about adversely impacted by the semiconductor shortage.

Our Take

Apple showtime allocated some of the iPad's production resource to the iPhone thirteen ahead of a spike in demand due to the vacation season. Information technology is likely the company has yet not redirected the resources in a bid to take hold of upwardly to the high demand for the new iPhones.

Do you lot recall Apple'due south plans for an updated iPad Air launch in March or April would exist foiled by these supply concatenation difficulties? Tell us in the comments.

[Via Nikkei Asia]