Does Japan earthquake affect to Apple?

Damage from two strong earthquakes occurred in Japan on Thursday and Saturday made the operation of the Sony plant in Kumamoto Prefecture interrupted. This is a factory specializing in manufacturing CMOS image sensor used in the camera's many smartphones as typified by Apple's iPhone. It is reported that the plant will remain closed during the Japanese manufacturer injury determination on the basis of the material will affect how the possibility of chain production.

Two strong earthquakes in Japan recently caused many losses of life and property

In parallel with the temporary closure of the plant in Kumamoto, Sony was forced to downsize production factory in Nagasaki when the plant also involved in the production of the image sensor smartphone. This unfortunate incident will most likely affect the market plans to launch the iPhone on September 7 here.

However, Sony still can meet the needs of this market thanks to the CMOS image sensor that they manufacture and reserves available in store. Representatives of the company said will be formally notified if the producer interrupted signs affecting the supply of products, in addition, the company also wishes to immediately restore the factory is closed aftershocks after the final pass.

Will this affect the release date of the iPhone 7?

Sony currently dominate 40% market share in trading the global image sensor and extremely famous with the CMOS sensor, so the production disruptions from Sony will make no small impact to the business smartphone. However, Samsung may be an exception by companies coming from South Korea is using sensors from multiple different sources of supply on their products.