Samsung Display is the ascendant subordinate successful the OLED market, and 1 of the main reasons is Apple’s determination to usage panels from the Korean shaper for its iPhones.
According to a caller report, Samsung is going to proviso implicit 70% of the OLEDs for the iPhone 14 devices - this includes some the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus with their regular panels and the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max with their LTPO displays.
iPhone 14 Pro Max (left) and iPhone 14 Pro
The Korean quality outlet TheElec revealed Apple is readying to manufacture 120 cardinal units of its latest main series. Of them, astatine slightest 80 cardinal volition person a Samsung panel, 20+ cardinal volition usage a surface from LG Display, and astir 6 million, is for BOE - the biggest Chinese shaper of specified panels. The supplier for the remaining units is yet to beryllium determined.
The study besides revealed that Samsung and LG Display are providing panels for each 4 iPhone 14 versions, portion BOE is manufacturing lone 6.1” LTPS OLEDs for the vanilla iPhone 14.
Out of the 80 cardinal units, Samsung Display expects implicit 60 cardinal of them to beryllium for the Pro models arsenic these are the versions that are performing amended than expected. LG Display is reportedly facing problems successful the accumulation line, allowing its chap Korean shaper to get an adjacent bigger share.
Looking astatine BOE, the unimpressive income of iPhone 14 mightiness beryllium a headache but the bigger contented is Apple reconsidering its declaration aft the Chinese shaper altered the circuit design without talking with Cupertino.