Smartphone shipments in China down 18.2{4a5bba0ff4e6e71c77a43f702bcf67aaa905f098cd98a7212a705248916f19b8} year-on-year – govt data

Cell telephones are witnessed on screen at an electronics market place in Shanghai, China, June 24, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song

SHANGHAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Shipments of smartphones inside of China fell 18.2{4a5bba0ff4e6e71c77a43f702bcf67aaa905f098cd98a7212a705248916f19b8} calendar year-on-12 months to 32.4 million handsets in January, the China Academy of Information and facts and Communications (CAICT) documented late on Thursday.

Shipments were being down from about 39.6 million in January 2021 and a little bit below 32.7 million in December 2021, in accordance to the CAICT, a state-backed imagine-tank.

Handset manufacturers are at present experiencing generation concerns due to a world wide computer chip scarcity.

A mixture of elements such as desire miscalculation, unanticipated manufacturing unit shutdowns and U.S.-China tensions have prompted a number of auto providers to report chip sourcing difficulties.

That scarcity has considering that spread to a lot of types of chips and all varieties of components, which includes smartphones.

Delayed upgrades from shoppers have also induced product sales to sluggish.

Reporting by Josh Horwitz Modifying by Sam Holmes

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