“According to reports originating from OLED-A.org (via OLED-Info), Apple has hired OLED expert Dr. James (Jueng-Gil) Lee who was previously a senior researcher on LG Display’s R&D team working on printed AMOLED TVs,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“Lee was a researcher with Cambridge Display Technology before joining LG, and also R&D head for LCD technology development at Samsung,” Kahn reports.
Read more in the full article here.
“The technology is also being used to develop flexible screens, something that Apple has shown interest in, although it is unknown if the company has any concrete plans to bring a product featuring such technology to market,” Ben Lovejoy reports for MacRumors. “Apple has been rumored to be looking at OLED technology for many years, but cost issues and other limitations have so far kept the company tied to LCD technology for its products.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Lynn Weiler” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
“Lee was a researcher with Cambridge Display Technology before joining LG, and also R&D head for LCD technology development at Samsung…”
Sorry, Samsung. This is what thermonuclear war looks like.
Yeah hiring a guy who used to work at Samsung 3 jobs ago will really show them.
This guy is both LCD and AMOLED expert, so he will be useful anyway. However, Apple has lots of its own experts in those areas already, so this is not like “major turn” of events.
Not in AMOLED they don’t. I know someone who works closely in this industry. It’s about time Apple joined in on the AMOLED train. This is a big hire considering LG owns a lot of the originating intellectual property when it purchased the OLED division from Kodak. This guy coming from there is HUGE because besides LG, Samsung already owns the majority of the display market whether we like it or not. Personally I think Apple should buy LG’s display division so they can pull display fab in-house
I don’t know about that (apple getting on the AMOLED train). I am a “critical viewer” (professional compositor) and I can tell you I haven’t see an AMOLED display on a production device who’s image quality was even close to todays LED screens. Overblown chroma, compressed luma and complete lack of shadow & specular details characterize the AMOLED’s I have seen thus far. Why would apple want to drop thier display quality? (unless they can significantly improve over what is available now)