Remember: last year, before the iPhone 12 was unveiled to the general public,many questions remained surrounding the fate of BOE Electronics, a regular when it came to providing screens to Apple for its mobiles. The service provider would not have been able to convince the Cupertino pundits, who then fell back towards alternative parts supplied by Samsung and LG.
But according to recent information fromThe Elec, three BOE factories have finally resumed production of flexible OLED panels for Apple. The source unfortunately does not specify for which products, but we know thatthe Apple firm has already imagined several concepts of foldable laptops in the past. Otherwise, it may just be the famous 2.5D technology which curves the screen sideways to better fit the shape of the device. However, this was abandoned on high-end collections with the end of the iPhone 11…
See you in two years
Analyst and CEO of UBI Research Choong Hoon Yi also believes that BOE could surpass LG Display in terms of iPhone deliveries by 2023, even thoughthe Korean has just invested nearly three billion dollars in the displays of future mobiles from Cupertino. Of course, Samsung would remain at the top of the list with still a majority of orders to its account.
Its Chinese competitor, for its part, could total no less than 144,000 units per month to Apple by the fourth quarter of next year. This would be the current level of the Galaxy Z Fold manufacturer, while LG is still satisfied with much less. Let us not forget that the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused severe damage in Asia, has also disrupted the plans of these giants in more recent periods.
iPhone 12 et iPhone 13
Also designing components for Oppo, BOE has several logistics chains, including one in the province of Sichuan. This is already at the helm of the screens for the iPhone 13 but also for the iPhone 12, still available in the Apple Store as we recall. In total, with these two models, BOE would then have sent eighteen million OLED panels to Foxconn and others for assembly in 2021.
