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That could start with this year’s Apple Watch Series 10, which is expected to get a larger screen with a thinner body. However, Apple’s next real tour-de-force won’t likely arrive until late next year when the first M5 MacBooks appear. Complex products like Macs and iPads are a sum of every component inside, so slimming them down requires cutting every possible corner. However, while the lid containing the screen and camera is already pretty thin on today’s MacBooks, Apple is looking at ways to make that even thinner. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, one key to this could be a new compact camera module (CCM), which Apple is already lining up suppliers for. In a post on Medium, Kuo reveals that Apple has pegged Sunny Optical to supply new CCMs for the new M5 MacBooks. If all goes well, these could also expand to the iPhone and iPad. Sunny Optical will become Apple’s new CCM supplier in 2025, with mass production and shipments in Vietnam for the CCM of the new M5 series MacBook models. Given that Sunny Optical is a first-tier CCM supplier in the world, if MacBook CCM shipments go smoothly, Sunny Optical may become the new CCM supplier for iPhone and iPad in the future. —Ming-Chi Kuo