Digital camera sensor yield points might delay iPhone 15 launch

The iPhone 14 rear digicam bump

The annual fall introduction of the subsequent iPhone era happens in September, with releases of fashions usually occurring the identical month or not lengthy after. Nonetheless, a characteristic change within the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus might trigger the fashions to reach later than scheduled.

In line with a analysis observe from Haitong Worldwide Securities analyst Jeff Pu, seen by MacRumors there’s a reiteration of claims made in January that the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will use a three-stacked sensor for one of many rear cameras. A stacked sensor can permit for extra mild to be captured than traditional, which can lead to a greater high quality picture.

In Sunday’s analysis observe, Pu warns that the stacked sensor might be dealing with yield points, which may lead to manufacturing delays for the 2 fashions. Nonetheless, for the second, it’s thought that the iPhone fashions in query are nonetheless on schedule for a September launch, and that Pu will “proceed to observe the dangers” to the manufacturing schedule.

This isn’t the one declare the analyst for the Hong Kong-based funding agency has made in regards to the iPhone 15 era. In April, he declared that solid-state buttons have been deliberate for the fashions, however wouldn’t be carried out this yr.

In the identical Sunday observe, Pu mentions using USB-C on all fashions, that capacities will stay the identical because the iPhone 14 era, and whereas the non-Professional fashions will use the A16, the Professional fashions will transfer to the A17.