Aug 10, 2026BF3-0413Never settled
The iPhone 18 Pro bill of materials will be about 40 percent higher, per TrendForce
The iPhone 18 Pro bill of materials will be about 40 percent higher.
TrendForce reported in PhoneArena that the iPhone 18 Pro bill of materials will be about 40 percent higher.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe iPhone 18 Pro bill of materials will be about 40 percent higher.
- Who said it, and whenTrendForce reported it on Aug 10, 2026 in PhoneArena.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 18 Pro was announced on Sep 9, 2026, 30 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyNever settledThe company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.Why: Apple publishes no bill of materials. A 40 percent increase is not something the announcement addresses, though a teardown may settle it later. What the company published
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- Wrong
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- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
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- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
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- Checked
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- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- TrendForce
- We read it in
- PhoneArena
- Product
- Apple iPhone 18 Pro · reported as “iPhone 18 Pro”