A new iPhone could give Apple a nice boost Smartphone sales may be dwindling this year, but that hasn't kept Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) from increasing its sales thanks to healthy demand for its latest iPhones. From Russia's war on Ukraine to rising interest rates to surging inflation and now the possibility of a recession, investors have had several reasons to flee the stock market so far this year. AMD's fourth-generation EPYC server processors, based on a 5-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process codenamed Genoa, will hit the market in the fourth quarter.