iPhone 6 Touch ID sensors reportedly enter production in Q2 (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw158__R0SG2VAN_lxCv9U9qqvafUUffMx17l3jNk9QI1K1L0tTOWyExgyYzbppRmP93JcAAsK31bPHa1gBBj8dMT_-srTsDx2N804JvG4e1ghdX-flh26Rc7hbL_Eq3n6hq_aM5CSyHs/s1600/iphone-5s-touch-id.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw158__R0SG2VAN_lxCv9U9qqvafUUffMx17l3jNk9QI1K1L0tTOWyExgyYzbppRmP93JcAAsK31bPHa1gBBj8dMT_-srTsDx2N804JvG4e1ghdX-flh26Rc7hbL_Eq3n6hq_aM5CSyHs/s1600/iphone-5s-touch-id.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_6189" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A recent report suggested that <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://bgr.com/tag/apple" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Apple</a> may be<a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://bgr.com/2014/01/06/iphone-phablet-release-date-iphone-6-launch/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_7103" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">planning to debut a new iPhone phablet as soon as this coming May</a> ahead of its <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://bgr.com/tag/iphone-6" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_6198" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">iPhone 6</a> launch in September or October. While it seems increasingly likely that Apple is indeed working on more than one new iPhone model following <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://bgr.com/2013/11/11/iphone-6-specs-curved-screens/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_7113" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">a number of solid reports to that effect</a>, the odds of one of the new iPhones launching in May were just severely decreased.<span id="more-2766441"></span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_5793" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">According to a new report from <em>Digitimes</em> that cites unnamed industry sources, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has just landed a contract with Apple that will see the chip fabricator begin producing Touch ID sensors for Apple’s next-generation iPhones in the second quarter this year. Unless Apple is having its fingerprint scanners for the iPhone phablet produced elsewhere, it is almost certainly not planning to launch the device in May.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">TSMC also produced Touch ID sensors for Apple’s <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://bgr.com/tag/iphone-5s" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">iPhone 5s</a> handset, which debuted last year.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_7186" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The report states that TSMC will handle the fingerprint scanners as well as the backend wafer level-chip scale packaging process. That process had been outsourced to third parties for the iPhone 5s Touch ID sensors according to the report, but TSMC will handle it in-house this time around in order to ensure that it can meet Apple’s demands for production volume.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389764135599_7186" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">BGR</div></div>

iPhone 6 Touch ID sensors reportedly enter production in Q2 (BLOG)

A recent report suggested that  Apple  may be planning to debut a new iPhone phablet as soon as this coming May  ahead of its  iPhone 6  lau...

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