Since last year,Apple would work on the successor to OLED, MicroLED screen technology, to initially equip the Apple Watch and then the iPhone.
At the beginning of the month, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple would launch severalnew products in 2019 and 2020, which would be equipped with this new screen technology. A leading supplier of MicroLED displayscould well be Foxconn.
According to a new report from the Chinese newspaper, Economic Daily News,Foxconn, the main assembler of the iPhone,would invest in MicroLED screen technology, to be able to supply future iPhones.
Thanks to these investments, Foxconn certainly hopes to win the contracts to supply the MicroLED screens for future iPhones.
Apple plans to migrate from OLED to MicroLED for its products in the future. Because this new screen technology has several advantages compared to OLED:lightness, finesse, better luminosity, but alsobetter energy management.
The MicroLED display also offers a wide color gamut, high contrast, high dynamic range and local brightness control. All of these factors are of interest to Apple for its products.
However, no manufacturer has yet mastered this technology. Apple could be the first thanks in particular to large investments made in the field.
According toa Bloomberg report last year, Apple would have itsown mini MicroLED screen manufacturing factorywith a surface area of 6,000 square meters located 15 minutes from its Apple Park headquarters. Inside, 300 engineers are reportedly working on the upcoming MicroLED screen technology.
Next to this factory, another facility is said to be working on developing technologies to place individual pixels in a MicroLED display. These technologies were acquired with theacquisition of the company LuxVuein 2014, which specializes in small LED screen technologies.
Having its own microfactory would allow Apple to keep its screen technologies secret until the last moment. Once the manufacturing process is well validated in its own establishment, it will be deployed on a large scale to subcontractors (potentially Foxconn) for larger production.
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