Manufacturers of smartphones have faced a lack of components due to the preparations for the iPhone 8. This is reported by the Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes with reference to informed sources.

Recently, Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been unable to build up inventories during the preparation for the launch of new products. The level of stocks in the channel continues to decline due to the adjustment, which has lasted two quarters.

In the second half of 2017 will release a new generation of smartphones iPhone. Producers after Apple endow their devices with dual cameras, high-capacity batteries and large amounts of RAM. Production of these key components is still small, but orders from Apple are growing, which generates a deficit.

Uncertainty has developed around OLED displays. Due to the transition of the new anniversary iPhone 8 to a new display technology, panels on organic light-emitting diodes will not be enough for all manufacturers in the second half of the year.

All smartphones iPhone 8 will be equipped with OLED displays. A supplier of such screens will be Samsung Display. Specialists note that Samsung Display will be able to produce up to 100 million curved displays for the year. At the same time, the South Korean company simply can not physically take the order from anyone else.

In addition, the launch of mass production of the iPhone creates a deficit of fingerprint scanners, cases and display components, the publication said..