Apple wants to stop using its biggest competitors to buy OLED screens, so what will it do?

at present Samsung It is the largest provider of OLED screens to Apple, which are the screens that the company uses in its flagship phones such as the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone XS, but because Samsung is Apple's biggest competitor in the field of smartphones, especially with the luxury Galaxy S and Note series, you often will not prefer A company like Apple has to rely on its competition in a very important component such as screens! This made the company take some steps in various aspects to obtain OLED screens from other suppliers, and this is what we want to talk about today.

Apple sees great hope in BOE, or so you think

Sometime last February it started BOE Corporation In striving to be one of the primary suppliers of OLED screens to Apple, and BOE is a Chinese company specializing in the field of screens. As you can conclude, its name comes an abbreviation for Beijing Oriental Electronics. It is strange that the company not only thought of Apple, but tried to provide Samsung itself with OLED screens, which is In order to take advantage of Samsung's desire to reduce manufacturing costs like any other company.

Things continued to progress and as far as we know both Apple and Samsung wanted to deal with Chinese BOE for the purpose of saving costs, but what happened later is that BOE screens have failed in Apple and Samsung tests! According to a report from one of the Korean sources, but here we note that the same sources have indicated that Apple and Samsung start adopting OLED screens in their phones beginning in 2021 or when the screens actually exceed the quality tests .. whichever is closer.

So .. when do we see BOE screens on the iPhone?

According to informed sources, BOE has not received Apple the first quantity of screens yet, because it has failed in the performance tests as mentioned above, but if we go back in time a little, we will be shocked by leaks and other reports indicating that Apple will not rely on BOE completely in the first place! This was revealed even before the company failed its performance and quality tests.

Apple intends to buy 45 million OLED screens only from the Chinese company, while it intends to purchase 150 million screens from Samsung (They are the best screens), this is in addition to 26 million screens from LG, but if we compare this information with the previous year, we will see that Apple has bought from Samsung a total of 230 million screens, so the decline in the numbers is clear.

To notice a very important thing, which is that all of the above related to the iPhone 12, which will come out to us in the last quarter of this year, specifically in October or September! Therefore, all indications indicate that BOE is very late for the iPhone 12, especially because its failure in quality tests requires substantial improvements, which are not completed within days or weeks! But we still don't know what might happen.

Perhaps the funny thing is that BOE is now trying to catch up with the Galaxy S30 series - or S21 - which will be released in February of next year! But if we abstract things and look at BOE as a company without any other considerations, we will find that it is in fact a very successful company and it currently controls 9.9% of the total market for OLED screens, compared to 10% for LG and 36.8% for Samsung, so it is not a company in the throes of failure as well. Imagine, it is all about having failed the quality tests put out by Samsung and Apple, which is treatable.

IPhone 12 screens with all-new standards

All the leaks that began appearing long months ago dealt with that Apple intends to launch 4 different phones within the iPhone 12 series, and the phones during this year will all come with an OLED screen instead of the LCD screens that were found in cheaper phones such as the iPhone 11, The new iPhone XS and iPhone SE! This is while the new phones will be available in different sizes, which we explain to you in the following points (which are based on previous leaks):

1- IPhone 12 5.4-inch screen
2- IPhone 12 Plus 6.1-inch screen
3- IPhone 12 Pro Also, 6.1 inches, at 120 hertz
4- IPhone 12 Pro Max - Screen measuring 6.7 inches with a frequency of 120 hertz

As you can see, Apple now relies on OLED screens in all its phones, as well as two phones out of the four will come with a frequency of 120 hertz! This requires distinctive manufacturing capabilities, which is what makes the Cupertino giant stick to Samsung more than any other company.

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Does Apple have other plans? What is its relationship with JDI?

Apple is now facing two different solutions, the first is to diversify sources as it does now and provide itself with screens from more than one source, and the second is to manufacture the screens themselves, which is very difficult, and the third is to invest in other companies related to the field, which is what happened with JD.

Last April, Apple invested an amount of 200 million US dollars, thus bringing the total amount raised by JDI - Japan Display Inc from Apple to 1.5 billion US dollars, and this company is one of Apple's suppliers of regular LCD screens, which we see in I-phones. IPhone is slightly older, but Apple intends to start relying on it to provide OLED screens, but for its smart watches.

More importantly, Apple's recent investment was to allow the Japanese company to expand its factories and increase its capabilities to finally be able to Production of OLED screens for iPhone And perhaps the iPad in the future, so JDI is a new option for Apple and is theoretically trying to acquire it with these investments.

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