A new TrendForce report shows Apple’s iPhone production growing sharply in Q1, even as rising memory costs put pressure on the broader smartphone market. Here are the details. Apple counters global smartphone production dip From Apple’s quarterly results to independent industry reports , the notion that the iPhone 17 lineup has been outperforming both Apple’s expectations and the broader market has been well documented. Now, a new TrendForce report adds another data point, showing that Apple saw a 19.7% year-over-year increase in iPhone production in Q1, while global smartphone production declined 1.7% during the same period. TrendForce says that while “Samsung remained the world’s largest smartphone producer,” with a 2.3% production increase year-over-year that resulted in “approximately 62.6 million” output units, “Apple ranked second with its production of approximately 60.2 million units during the quarter”.…