SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – Shipments of smartphones inside China fell 31.8 per cent year-on-year to 14.5 million handsets in February, the China Academy of Data and Communications (CAICT) reported on Monday (March 21).
Shipments had been down from about 21.3 million handsets in February 2021 and 32.4 million in January 2022, in response to the CAICT, a state-backed think-tank.
Handset manufacturers are at present experiencing manufacturing points resulting from a worldwide pc chip scarcity.
A mixture of things together with demand miscalculation, sudden manufacturing facility shutdowns and United States-China tensions have prompted numerous car corporations to report chip sourcing points.
That scarcity has since unfold to many sorts of chips and all types of {hardware}, together with smartphones.
Delayed upgrades from shoppers have additionally prompted gross sales to sluggish in China.