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Apple is extending its support for the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) programme Girls into Electronics 2024, which aims to inspire girls to explore future careers in the industry. Apple supported the programme last year and for 2024 participants will also be offered the opportunity to join Apple’s Mentorship Programme and connect with Apple engineers to provide advice. “At Apple ...

Q4 tablet shipments  fell 17.4% y-o-y  to 36.8 million units, says IDC  – the largest decline in Q4 tablet shipments since 2016. For  2023,  tablet shipments totaled 128.5 million units, a decline of 20.5% compared to 2022 and the lowest annual volume since 2011. Apple retained its top spot in the tablet market, despite a notable decline in shipments for ...

We haven't featured a teardown for a while, and this is a good one: an iFixit teardown of the very new (and very expensive) Apple Vision Pro.

The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010. Now it is Apple. Smartphone shipments declined 3.2% year over year to 1.17 billion units in 2023, says IDC. While this marks the lowest full-year volume in a decade,  growth in the second half of the year has cemented the expected recovery ...

The repair-specialists iFixit have taken the unusual step of retroactively dropping its iPhone 14 official Repairability Score. An Apple practice called 'parts pairing' is to blame...

As soon as it was announced, I was dying to see what type of display Apple has used in the Vision Pro augmented reality headset. And its website says: a pair of micro-oled displays, with resolution above 4K I was hoping for a micro-led display – ie, inorganic semiconductor – as this is a very interesting technology. Maybe this tells ...

As well as partnering with the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) for the Girls Into Electronics 2023 initiative, Apple has been holding its Electronic Engineering Academy, a two-day event for young women between the ages of 16-18. The open days – which took place at the company’s new UK HQ at Battersea Power Station – provided attendees with a unique ...

Q4 smartphone production was up 4% QoQ  but down 15.5% YoY to 301 million units for 4Q22, says TrendForce. 2022 production was 10.6% down on 2021 at 1,192 billion units Q4 iPhone production rose 44.7% QoQ to 73.5 million units making it the biggest producer in Q4. For 2022, Apple sold 233 million Phones which put itbin second place for ...

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) and Apple are partnering, to support 400 young women gain insight into a career in Electronic Engineering, for the ‘Girls into Electronics’ programme. The organisations hope the initiative will encourage more students from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in this area, which would help address a gender imbalance. “We believe education can be a ...

Apple is to replace the iPhone Bluetooth/WiFi IC currently supplied by Broadcom with an in-house chip by 2025, reports Bloomberg. Apple is Broadcom’s largest customer representing about 20% of Broadcom’s revenue last FY worth $7 billion. Apple’s replacement chip is said to integrate the cellular modem with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functions. Apple is pursuing a long-term strategy of making ...