It’s been a few months since Apple launched the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro series smartphones in the market. Its successor, the iPhone 15 lineup is almost a year away from getting announced, but rumors about the upcoming series have already started surfacing online.

In the latest development, according to research firm Barclays, Apple supplier Cirrus Logic may have hinted at the Cupertino-based technology giant adopting solid-state touch-based buttons on iPhones next year.

Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

The report adds that Cirrus Logic has a sent a letter to shareholders this month in which the company said that it continues to engage with a “strategic customer” and expects to bring a new HPMS component to the smartphones market next year.

HPMS stands for Cirrus Logic’s high-performance mixed-signal chips, which include haptic drivers for the Taptic Engine used in Apple iPhones. Earlier, the company’s CEO John Forsyth had said that the timeframe for this new component coming to the market will be the “back half of next year,” which means the second half.

The launch of this new component in the later half of 2023 falls within the timeframe for the launch of iPhone 15 Pro models from Apple, which should happen in September next year.

This new development regarding touch-based buttons for the iPhones comes just a month after well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the iPhone 15 Pro models will feature solid-state volume and power buttons. He added that the phones will be equipped with two additional Taptic Engines to provide haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of pressing the buttons.

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