iPhone 7 chipset is believed to be produced by TSMC company. However recently the iPhone 7 chip manufacturer had to decrease shipments of the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus A9-series processors for Apple smartphones because of Taiwan earthquake [the company also experiences iPhone 6 error 53 bug].
According to TSMC, the earthquake caused the damage for one of its facilities and this forces the manufacturer to decrease the shipments by over 1 percent. Samsung is also producing processors for iPhone 6s line and Apple could ask this company to ship more while TSMC steps aside because of the new circumstances.
Will the 6.4 magnitude earthquake have an impact on Apple long-term chipset production? TSMC has to indicate this by analyzing all the damage it got in Taiwan in February. The earthquake injured many people and caused 116 deaths.
At first, the company believed that it could restore most of its foundry machines within 2-3 days. But it seems that this wouldn’t work for all Fabs it has. Still TSMC is positive about its revenues because it still targets the U.S. $5.9-$6.0 billion revenue for Q1, 2016. The decrease in iPhone 6s chip shipments [find out what the most popular iPhone size is] shouldn’t affect these plans.
Apple is rumored to let TSMC produce all A10-series iPhone 7 processor parts and the earthquake shouldn’t have an impact on future iPhone supply. So the next iPhone 7 and 7 Plus should get their chipsets on time.