** Shares of semiconductor companies, which supply to Apple
Inc AAPL.O , fall premarket after a Bloomberg News report that
said co is dropping plans to increase production of its new
iPhones this year as demand falters
** Apple shares fall 3.2% premarket
** U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Co 2330.TW , a key supplier of Apple's custom chips, fall 2.4%
** Shares of chipmakers including Broadcom AVGO.O , Analog
Devices ADI.O , Qualcomm QCOM.O , Microchip Technology
MCHP.O , Onsemi ON.O , and Texas Instruments TXN.O down
between 0.4% and 2% premarket
** Shares of Cirrus Logic CRUS.O down 4.6%, while those of
memory chip cos Micron Technology MU.O and Western Digital
WDC.O down 0.9% and 2.2% respectively
** Shares of Skyworks Solutions SWKS.O , Qorvo QRVO.O ,
and Lumentum Holdings LITE.O down between 0.5% and 2.1%
** Shares of Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O down 1.1%
** U.S.-listed shares of European semiconductor suppliers
STMicroelectronics STM.BN and NXP Semiconductors NV NXPI.O
fall 5.1% and 0.5% respectively, tracking the fall of chip
makers on European bourses after the report
(Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru)
((Chavi.Mehta@thomsonreuters.com;))