Samsung, having the most mature AMOLED manufacturing line, will reportedly provide 60% of AMOLED displays used by Apple. The company made a huge investment - between $6.64 billion and $7.47 billion - that should see manufacturing capacity grow to 45,000 units a month in order to meet the order of 100 million displays for next year.
This won't be that hard if Apple sticks to its 2-3 models a year strategy.
Information continues to trickle out that Apple is looking to switch from LCD to AMOLED displays, starting with the larger iPhone Plus model.
Yi Choong-hoon, president and chief analyst of UBI Research, at a seminar for those in the industry and investors on Friday predicted an OLED iPhone with a curved screen would debut in 2018, saying OLED models would make up 30 percent or 100 million units of total iPhone shipments in the year and the figure could surge to 80 percent by 2020.
For its liquid crystal displays, Apple has three suppliers -- LG Display, Sharp and Japan Display. But the analyst downplayed the possibility that Chinese display makers will become an OLED supplier for iPhones any time soon.
“Their technological capabilities and supply chains are still far behind Korean and Japanese rivals. It would take time for them to catch up with LG, not to mention Samsung,” he said.
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This won't be that hard if Apple sticks to its 2-3 models a year strategy.
Information continues to trickle out that Apple is looking to switch from LCD to AMOLED displays, starting with the larger iPhone Plus model.
Yi Choong-hoon, president and chief analyst of UBI Research, at a seminar for those in the industry and investors on Friday predicted an OLED iPhone with a curved screen would debut in 2018, saying OLED models would make up 30 percent or 100 million units of total iPhone shipments in the year and the figure could surge to 80 percent by 2020.
For its liquid crystal displays, Apple has three suppliers -- LG Display, Sharp and Japan Display. But the analyst downplayed the possibility that Chinese display makers will become an OLED supplier for iPhones any time soon.
“Their technological capabilities and supply chains are still far behind Korean and Japanese rivals. It would take time for them to catch up with LG, not to mention Samsung,” he said.
Source | Via
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