The metaverse has become one of the hot words in 2021, and the market seems to be more optimistic that this year will be the first year of metaverse applications. Not only technology giants and semiconductor manufacturers are eager to try, but even packaging and testing manufacturers are making advanced layouts to seize business opportunities in industries such as MR and XR.

TechNews The report points out that the market is highly concerned about the progress of Apple's layout in the metaverse. Guo Mingchi, an analyst at Tianfeng International Securities, expects that Apple's AR MR The head mounted device will debut at the end of this year, and he estimates that the shipment volume is expected to show in the first quarter of 2023, including supply chain manufacturers such as Qualcomm, TSMC, Xinxing, Jade Crystal Optoelectronics, and Jabil.

It is reported that Apple has been laying out AR software and hardware for many years, and has firmly established a foothold in the fields of metaverse related hardware and operating systems, underlying architecture, attributes and scenarios.

Chip manufacturers are also actively entering the metaverse applications. Analysts estimate that the current chip computing power needs to be increased by 1000 times to meet the high-performance computing needs of the metaverse.

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