In a recent forecast of KGI Securities, Apple's unconditional leadership in the three-dimensional recognition segment. Allegedly Apple is ahead of Qualcomm, which also works in this direction, for two years.

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims Qualcomm's technology is immature in both hardware and software, so the company will not be able to supply the required components until 2019.

The only potential customer of Qualcomm in this area so far is the company Xiaomi, which plans to wait for market reaction to a 3D camera in the iPhone 8, and only after that will decide on the use of innovation in their smartphones.

Earlier it was reported that the iPhone 8 will feature a revolutionary front camera and an infrared module for three-dimensional recognition of the faces of users. All the accessories of the front camera Apple will be produced by TSMC. While Qualcomm's solution is Himax's 2-in-1 system, which, according to the insiders, works much worse than the Apple solution.