Wednesday November 23, 2022 10:58 americium PST by

Apple supplier Cirrus Logic whitethorn person vaguely hinted astatine iPhone 15 Pro models getting haptic buttons adjacent year, according to probe steadfast Barclays.

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In a letter to shareholders this month, the Texas-based semiconductor institution said it continues to "engage with a strategical customer" and expects to "bring a caller HPMS constituent to marketplace successful smartphones adjacent year." HPMS refers to Cirrus Logic's high-performance mixed-signal chips, which includes haptic drivers for the Taptic Engine successful iPhones.

On an earnings call with analysts this month, Cirrus Logic CEO John Forsyth narrowed down the timeframe for this caller constituent coming to marketplace to the "back fractional of adjacent year," which would enactment up with iPhone 15 Pro models launching adjacent September.

In an capitalist enactment past week, Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis and Tom O'Malley said the caller constituent that Cirrus Logic mentioned volition astir apt beryllium portion of further Taptic Engines for the haptic buttons connected iPhone 15 Pro models:

The biggest alteration to our reasoning present is to exemplary $1 of caller contented successful the IP15 Pro models. To beryllium clear, the institution hasn't said overmuch present different than that the spot is mixed awesome and not successful the powerfulness domain. When looking astatine imaginable usage cases, the largest alteration successful caller iPhone models adjacent twelvemonth is the removal of the buttons, which would necessitate further drivers for the haptics engine, making it the astir apt usage lawsuit for caller content.

In October, well-known Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models volition feature solid-state measurement and powerfulness buttons. Kuo said the devices volition beryllium equipped with 2 further Taptic Engines that supply haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of pressing the buttons, without them physically moving, akin to the Home fastener connected caller iPhone SE models oregon the Force Touch trackpad connected newer MacBooks.

Haptic buttons connected iPhones could let for adjacent amended h2o absorption and would destruct moving parts that tin deterioration retired oregon interruption implicit time. However, the modular iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are inactive expected to person mechanical buttons.

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