Ahmad Kamran 
The effect of the nCoV virus has affected most of the world’s manufacturing and trading system, especially in the smartphone industry.
The Q1 of 2020 has seen a remarkable change in the smartphone supply chain and manufacturing because of the Novel Coronavirus. The total forecast of the Q1 shows a 30 percent decline in manufacturing the smartphone market and total supply chain shipment.
The shipment of the smartphone was 90 million in Q1 2019, whereas this year it is declined to 63 million. The research also suggests a 70 percent decline in the Year over Year (YoY) offline market. The overall sale of smartphones in the Q2 will be also less.
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The fear of the novel coronavirus has spread throughout the world. Most manufacturing companies have closed their manufacturing because of the recent conflict.
The affect of nCoV on Mobile Companies
- Apple closed the iPhone SE 2 and AirPods Pro manufacturing
- Samsung S20 supply chain is terminated
- MWC 2020 event is canceled
- Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi will host its own event
- Most tech companies have terminated their assembly
The affect of nCoV on the Supply Chain
- Local brands are affected
- Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme and Xiaomi sales decline
- 1 million units of Apple products decline
As a whole, the Chinese are doing everything in their power to tackle this situation. We hope that the situation will get better in the third and fourth quarter of 2020.
