TDK is preparing a new generation of battery to power the smartphone through AI tasks at a time, which is the major customer Apple Inc. Also preparing to launch Slimmer handset,
The Tokyo-based component manufacturer will begin shipping its third repetition of the silicon-nod battery by the end of June, said the Chief Executive Officer Noboru Sato. He said that he is ahead of TDK’s original schedule for shipment in the September quarter and he could give enough time to use these cells in a thin model launched this year, he said.
“We have made good progress, and we are shipping them very soon,” he said in an interview. “Some handset manufacturers may be able to use a new battery in a generation in their product.”
TDK’s battery technology is helping the world’s largest smartphone makers to reduce their gadgets without reducing the time of running the battery. Its latest lithium-ion batteries use silicone for anode instead of commonly used graphite, and can pack 15 percent more energy in the same location than traditional recurrent battery packs.
Samsung Electronics Company this week roll The 5.9-mileyimeter Galaxy S25 Edge, which is 30 percent slimmer compared to the company’s high-end S25 ultra, while also promises a camera with new editing features and other AI capabilities.
Apple is also set to debut Slimmer handset -Phone 17 entering air-a new industrial design that can give rise to thin models from cupertino-based company in the future.
According to data compiled by Bloomberg, Apple and Samsung TDK are the largest customers, each of which contributes about 10 percent of the overall revenue of the Japanese company. SITO refused to pricate or disclose its customers, but said TDK offered a component to all customers who recognize the value of technology.
Silicon-node battery technology can be applied to a series of cell sizes for use in a variety of products, from gadgets to electric vehicles. TDK Battery Assistant Amperex Technology Ltd. The smartphone is the leading manufacturer of the small silicone battery used in the smartphone and keeps a “large part” according to SITO.
He said, “We are planning to introduce the fourth generation silicon battery for some time in the next financial year, so that we can move forward.” “Large -scale productive silicone batteries require special information. It is not that you can do it only by keeping the material together.”
TDK Hope This year the production of global smartphones is to grow from one percent to 12 billion units, although it is warned that American trade policies can eventually eradicate that development. Last month, the company first presented its annual approach in the form of a limit rather than a single number, with citing a reference Uncertainty tariff around us.
Sato stated that companies need to react to the events outside their control and be ready to be dynamic and flexible in response to customer requests.
For TDK, it means diversity in production places. Amperex has gathered the battery mainly in China, but it is setting up a new factory in India that will go online by September. The initial production capacity in the Indian feature is not large, but it is not difficult to produce silicone battery on graphite battery production lines, Sato said which batteries of TDK are planning to make there.
More manufacturers are creating manufacturing capabilities outside China, doing this with Apple expansion capacity in India and doing so in Nintendo Company Vietnam and Cambodia. Sato said how TDK allocates production between China and India, customer would host on requests.
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