Drop in Sales of Wintek’s Touch Panel Hints At Apple’s Switch to In-Cell Touch Panels For Next-Gen iPhone

Wintek, Apple’s supply chain partner that makes touch panels used in iPhones, saw a steep drop of sales of its panels for the month of June. Brian White, an analyst with Topeka Capital Market, links this slump to Apple switching to in-cell touch sensing technology in its next-generation products.
Wintek’s sales decreased by 33.6 percent month over month, which is unusually low for the company’s average June growth rate of 1 percent.
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