A woman sets up her facial recognition as she looks at her Apple iPhone X at an Apple store in New York, U.S., November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
For a company that specialises in 3D sensing components, it can be surprisingly hard to get much visibility how earnings at AMS AG are going to develop.
A lot of that is due to the chipmaker’s exposure to Apple Inc. Five years ago, AMS decided to accelerate its push into 3D sensing technology, a gamble that has broadly paid off. Sales almost doubled in 2017, with most of that increase attributable to Apple using the Austrian firm’s components in the iPhone X.
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