At present, most mobile phones have adopted the USB Type-C interface, but the iPhone still insists on using its own Lightning interface, and following the European Parliament decided to unify the charging interface, it seems that even Apple has to compromise, and it may be possible on the iPhone next year. Finally switched to USB Type-C.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said on Twitter that according to his recent investigation, the iPhone released next year will finally abandon Lightning and switch to USB Type-C, which also gives the iPhone the opportunity to improve data transmission speed and charging power, but the actual The specs still depend on how Apple makes them.
In addition to benefiting consumers from changing to a common transmission port, Ming-Chi Kuo also pointed out that since the peripherals of the iPhone will also be changed to USB Type-C, in the next one to two years, the related industry chain of USB Type-C, such as the control chip And connectors, etc., will be the focus of the market.
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My latest survey indicates that 2H23 new iPhone will abandon Lightning port and switch to USB-C port. USB-C might improve iPhone’s transfer and charging speed in hardware designs, but the final spec details still depend on iOS support.
— Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) May 11, 2022
In addition to the fact that the European Parliament has pushed the same charging specification into the legislative process, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also announced at the beginning of the year that it will implement USB Type-C as a unified charging specification. Europe is Apple’s second largest following the Americas, and it is also a growing market. The market with the second highest rate, and China is the fastest-growing market, no matter how tough Apple is, I am afraid that it can’t be tougher than market regulations.