The TF International analyst says that Apple will ship as many as 88 million units during the second half of this year. That would be a 17.3% hike from the 75 million iPhones that Apple shipped during the second half of 2020.
Apple expects to add ProMotion displays on the iPhone 13 Pro models featuring a variable 120Hz refresh rate, the A15 Bionic chipset manufactured using TSMC’s enhanced 5nm node, improvements to the cameras including sensor shift stabilization for all four models. This feature stabilizes the shaking that happens when recording videos by adjusting the camera’s sensors instead of their lenses.
Huawei was on its way to becoming the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world when the bans were announced in 2019 and 2020. After selling its Honor sub-unit last year in order to divorce the brand from Huawei and its U.S. punishments, Huawei is now expected to drop to the seventh spot among the globe’s top smartphone companies this year. That decline in smartphone sales could be filled by Apple according to Ming-Chi Kuo.