The subsequent Apple Watch could also be delayed attributable to manufacturing points

The subsequent Apple Watch is experiencing manufacturing points that might result in the product being launched later than anticipated, in response to separate studies from Nikkei and Bloomberg. The potential delay is reportedly attributable to complexities within the smartwatch’s new design, which is rumored to incorporate flat sides and greater screens.

Sources informed Nikkei that small-scale manufacturing for the following Apple Watch had begun however that it encountered “critical challenges in reaching satisfactory production performance.” Bloomberg reported related particulars. Production has now been “temporarily halted” whereas Apple and its suppliers work to resolve the manufacturing points forward of eventual mass manufacturing, Nikkei says.

The new Apple Watch, anticipated to be referred to as the Apple Watch Series 7, will see display measurement will increase to 41mm and 45mm (a 1mm bump from the at present obtainable choices), a sooner processor, and “a flatter display and edges,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported in his Power On newsletter on Sunday. While Gurman reported that the Series 7 gained’t deliver any huge well being upgrades “until at least next year,” Nikkei studies that the brand new Watch will add new options “such as blood pressure measurement.”

Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 6 at an occasion final September, and the corporate is predicted to host one other September product occasion this yr. Given these reported manufacturing challenges with the following Apple Watch, if Apple does host a September occasion, there’s a risk the Apple Watch may not make an look.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.