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Apple suppliers that will provide various iPhone 6 parts are apparently “facing technological difficulties maintaining or hiking yield rates” for various components, Digitimes reports, including panels, chassis and battery packs. Supply chain sources talking to the publication said that iPhone 6-related orders will contribute to revenues, but will not help increase gross margins because of the challenges they had or have to face. FROM EARLIER: New report claims to reveal release date for iPhone 6 and ‘iPhone Air’ Apple is expected to sell up to 70 million new iPhones by the end of the year, according to the same sources. Digitimes further says that suppliers will make 2mm thick batteries for the iPhone 6, significantly thinner than the 3mm batteries