According to DIGITIMES, despite the relaxation of epidemic control measures and the resumption of production, apple supplier Guangda's ability to produce MacBook Pro models at its Shanghai plant is still seriously hampered. Since returning to work last month, Guangda has so far been able to restore about 30% of its production capacity at its Shanghai plant.
Quanta is Apple's 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook The only assembler of pro, these machines are mainly produced in ODM factory in Shanghai. CC Leung, vice chairman of Guangda, pointed out on April 30 that the company's Shanghai plant has restored about 30% of its production capacity and plans to gradually increase this proportion to 50%.
It is reported that many downstream assemblers may have resumed their production lines, but for the same reason, many manufacturers are still facing the problem of insufficient supply of parts.
Apple's customers have been facing unusually long delivery times for weeks due to limited production capacity caused by downtime and chip shortages. At Apple's online store in the United States, all pre configured purchase options for 14 inch macbook pro and 16 inch MacBook Pro currently show delivery dates from June 29 to July 14.
The same delivery deadline applies to MAC studio (20 core / 48 core CPU / GPU). Although the configuration of 10 core / 24 core CPU / GPU is slightly better, the delivery window is from May 17 to May 24. MacBook Air, 24 inch IMAC And mac mini are currently not affected by restrictions, Mac Pro Depending on the configuration options, some will wait until June.
In the case of poor logistics, Apple has changed the mode of transportation from sea to air to shorten the delivery time, but because only limited goods have been changed to air, it is still difficult to alleviate the current shortage.
Apple said last month that over time, downtime and chip shortages in China will continue to make it difficult to produce enough products to meet strong consumer demand, which will eventually affect Apple's revenue in June.