(Updates)
** 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 down 2.5% at $147.91 after dropping as much
as 4.6% earlier
** U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Co 2330.TW , a key supplier of Apple's custom chips, fall 2.2%
** Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says AAPL may build its new Apple
Car project team before the end of the year
** Kuo adds that iPhone 14 Pro Max accounts for about
60% of the total order increase of Pro models, benefiting iPhone
average selling price for Q4
** Chip stocks including Nvidia Corp NVDA.O , Advanced
Micro Devices Inc AMD.O , Micron Technology MU.O and Western
Digital Corp WDC.O trade between -0.6% and 1.2% after the
report
** Shares of Broadcom Inc AVGO.O and Qualcomm Inc QCOM.O
fall 0.2% and 1%, respectively
(Reporting by Chavi Mehta and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru)
((Chavi.Mehta@thomsonreuters.com;))