Apple’s component suppliers are bracing for cuts in sales as the iPhone maker has apparently pared down its orders for the phones.

Problems for Chinese iPhone factories were seen in the final two months of last year, when they had some surprisingly idle capacity at a time when they would have been usually rushing to meet orders from Apple, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Apple, which usually intimates its projections of its requirements to makers in advance, cut its order forecasts to iPhone suppliers in the past several months, the Journal said, quoting three people familiar with the company’s supply chain.

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