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Rumor: Apple to ship low-end and high-end versions of its mixed reality headset in 2025

If the rumored $3,000 price tag for Apple’s mixed reality headset sounds high, there may be a lower-end variant available come 2025. Per noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s second-generation AR/VR headset will be offered in high-end and low-end versions. Shipments of the second-generation model are expected to be around ten times those of the first-generation […]

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Foxconn reported to have broken new ground on $500 million AirPods plant in India

Foxconn’s expansion outside of China continues. The company has begun making an investment of $500 million into new plants in India, according to a tweet by K.T. Rama Rao, the state IT minister for Telangana. It’s thought that the plant will most likely be used in the production of AirPods for Apple. In March, Foxconn […]

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Oculus founder tweets effusive-but-cryptic praise regarding Apple’s mixed reality headset

Apple’s forthcoming mixed reality headset just earned copious-if-vague praise from the founder of Oculus. In a cryptic post on Twitter on Sunday night, Palmer Luckey simply tweeted: “The Apple headset is so good.” Luckey’s comments come after testers have reportedly been left “blown away” by the product in early demos. Luckey founder Oculus, one of […]

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Rumor: Apple currently testing “M3 Pro” chip for release in next-gen MacBook Pro notebooks

The current base-level M2 Pro chip in the 14-inch MacBook Pro has a 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU, and starts with 16GB of memory, so the M3 Pro chip would have at least two extra cores for both the CPU and GPU. Apple last updated the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro in January, so the […]

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Foxconn reports 56 percent profit shortfall for Q1 2023, offers modest financial expectations for the year

The numbers aren’t where Foxconn, Apple’s primary supplier, would like them to be. Foxconn recently reported a 56 percent decline for its first-quarter net profit, a number that represented its largest quarterly decline in three years, the company falling far short of forecasts. During the January-March quarter, Foxconn disclosed a decline in net profit to […]