Kuo: new iPhones and iPads to switch to modified polyamide antennae

Upcoming novel iPhones as well as iPads are expected to switch from 2 upper antennae as well as 2 lower antennae made from LCP to a unmarried Modified PI (MPI) cloth as well as liquid crystal polymer (LCP) for the upper antenna as well as iii MPI assemblies for the lower antenna.

That’s according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF Securities, who inward a novel Federal Reserve notation to clients obtained yesteryear AppleInsider reiterated his previous prediction that the iPhone models released inward 2019 as well as novel iPad Pros inward like shooting fish in a barrel 2019 to early on 2020 volition adopt novel antenna tech.

Here’s an excerpt from the question note:

We believe that the liquid crystal polymer antenna limits the iPhone XS Max/XS/XR’s RF surgery inward to a greater extent than or less cases because of production issues fifty-fifty though LCP theoretically has advantages for high-frequency RF transmission.

The electrical current iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max as well as iPhone XR models role vi LCP antennae.

AppleInsider has more:

These changes could movement an upshot on pricing. Kuo posits that if 2019 iPhone shipments are close the same twelvemonth on year, the dollar content of the novel antennae volition grow betwixt 10-20%. The upper antenna costs to a greater extent than than the lower antenna, fifty-fifty though MPI is to a greater extent than affordable, due to the to a greater extent than complex pattern of the upper antenna.

Kuo previously said that updated eleven as well as 12.9-inch iPad Pro models would come inward volume production betwixt the 4th quarter of 2019 as well as the offset quarter of 2020, sporting flexible circuit boards using LCP technology.

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