For those awaiting the iPhone 5S release date, things just got a little murkier. Just one day after South Korean tech publication Digitimes announced, courtesy of anonymous supply chain sources, that the iPhone 5S won’t ship with a full load in order to meet a September release date due to an issue with the handset’s supposed fingerprint sensor, it’s offering up another reason for the alleged shipping constraints: poor yields of LCD driver ICs.

Translation? Essentially the circuit chip used to regulate the current flowing through circuit is having issues. Or so DigiTimes says. Yesterday, though, after DigiTimes had its say, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek suggested conversely that Apple’s production partners expect to be pumping out devices as early as the end of this month.

DigiTimes wrote,

“Volume production of fingerprint-recognition and LCD driver chips for the iPhone 5S should have started at the end of June or early in July, but issues related to yield rates will delay commercial production of the two chips to the end of July, therefore affecting the initial supply of the iPhone 5S, the sources explained.”

So many different accounts of Apple production and products isn’t unheard of. The Cupertino, CA company has a number of different production partners working on even the slightest aspects of its next-generation devices so it’s not crazy to consider that each respective partner has a different idea of what exactly is going on in general.

But with so many conflicting takes, which one is the right one? That is the question. Surely Apple is content to have so many contradicting points of view on what they’re cooking up in their labs. After all, very rarely, if ever, does Apple confirm a single technical aspect of its gadgets before their release dates.

The iPhone 5S, low-cost iPhone, and iOS 7 are expected to launch side-by-side in September of this year. Let us know how you think they’ll turn out in the comments section below.

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