FILE PHOTO: Apple company logos are seen as two MacBooks stand next to each other in an office in Vienna, Austria January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

(Reuters) – Production of some Apple Inc’s MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to a global component shortage, the Nikkei reported on Thursday.

Chip shortages have caused delays in a key step in MacBook production, according to the report, which added that some iPad assembly was postponed because of a shortage of displays and display components. (s.nikkei.com/3uAZhI7)

Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta

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