Major Apple supplier Qorvo warns of coronavirus revenue miss
Apple supplier Qorvo has lowered its revenue guidance for its March quarter, citing the coronavirus's impact on the supply chain and customer demand.
Apple supplier Qorvo has lowered its revenue guidance for its March quarter, citing the coronavirus's impact on the supply chain and customer demand.
Both UWB chip supplier Decawave and microwave communications firm Custom MMC, have been acquired by Qorvo, a semiconductor firm company that supplies Apple with processors for the iPhone.
Infineon, Qualcomm, Western Digital and more have all stopped supplying Huawei after a deeper ban on selling to Huawei or buying from the company has commenced in the United States.
Modified iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models are to go back on sale in Germany using Qualcomm modems instead of Intel, to avoid a ban in the country as part of an ongoing worldwide legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple.
Qualcomm on Thursday announced that it posted a security bond of 1.34 billion euros, about $1.52 billion, moving ahead with a German ban on the iPhone 7 and 8.
Apple is facing another potential sales ban in Germany, as the German court in Munich has ruled that the company stands in violation of a Qualcomm patent.
Several prominent news sources are again blowing a cloud of speculative rumor-mongering that claims Apple's iPhone sales are — perhaps! — in desperate straits. Revised revenue reports from just five firms—out of Apple's 200 primary suppliers—are at the core of these reports, so take a look at how flimsy these conclusions are.
Qorvo, a supplier of RF components to Apple, is offering strong guidance for the September quarter that hints at a healthy "iPhone 7" ramp and possibly even the phone shipping a week earlier than usual, an analyst claimed on Wednesday.
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