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May
Apple's Foldable iPhone Hits Manufacturing Wall—Three Months to Prove Samsung Wrong Apple's September 2026 foldable iPhone launch is now a race against the calendar. The company faces serious surface mount technology (SMT) yield problems in pre-assembly that it has exactly three months to solve before mass production kicks off in July. Meanwhile, Samsung—which has spent six years refining folding screens, hinges, and manufacturing workflows—is watching from a position of competitive luxury that Apple itself enabled by waiting this long. This isn't a story about whether Apple can make a foldable phone. It's about whether Apple can ship millions of them…