“Apple’s reported 12.9-inch iPad will come equipped with Oxide LCD display technology and will go into mass production in the third quarter of 2015, according to panel supply chain sources,” Rebecca Kuo and Alex Wolfgram report for DigiTimes.
Apple “has been assessing different panel technologies ranging from a-Si, TFT LCD and Oxide LCD in terms of cost versus performance, and has only recently decided to move forward with Oxide technology,” Kuo and Wolfgram report. “Sharp, LG Display and Samsung Display are all sending out samples, the sources said, adding that Sharp is expected to be the main supplier due to its advantages in the market for Oxide production.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If true, good news for what’s left of bailout-happy Sharp which lately needs all of the good news it can get.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Since Apple uses oxide LCD (IGZO) for iPads for couple of years now, there is no doubt that if Apple is going to produce bigger iPad, it is also going to be oxide LCD.
Whole “Apple “has been assessing different panel technologies ranging from a-Si, TFT LCD and Oxide LCD in terms of cost versus performance, and has only recently decided to move forward with Oxide technology” is ridiculous nonsense, DigiTimes, as they often do, invented the news.
There was never assessment, and it was known from very beginning that there is no real alternative to oxide in bigger than smartphone panels. LTPS would be the best option technologically, but it is super expensive on anything bigger than smartphone screen (iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus), and a-si is little transparent that it would only normally work on destop displays. (Remember thick and heavy iPad 3? It was the last time Apple used a-si.)
Minor correction: not just iPad 3, but iPad 3/4 (iPad 4 still used a-si matrix with giant 42 W-hr battery for that), and iPad mini non-retina still uses a-si (it does not consume a lot in low resolution).
* “a-si is little transparent” should be read as “a-si has low transparency”.
I have a “thick and heavy” iPad 3, derss. While it is not as sleek as the iPad Air 2, it was an accomplishment for its time and is still quite functional. Take it back ten years and it would be viewed with wonder and awe. Take it back twenty years and it would be viewed almost like an alien piece of technology.
This is all just tongue-in-cheek humor. But I felt compelled to point out that “thick and heavy” is relative.
But … Rebecca Kuo kept her boss happy at DigiTimes
… for another week at least.
I love my 60″ Sharp Aquos, bought without remotely considering Scamflunk droppings.
Sharp needs all the help it can get, whereas Scamstung needs all of the market indifference it deserves.
Apple is considering using transistors in iPads.
“The iPad Pro’s display might be unlike anything available in the market. The “”iPad Pro”” is said to be an even larger version of the iPad Air, with a display measuring in at 12.9 inches. Perhaps aimed at the enterprise market, SHARP display in iPads sound unpredictable about this product, but expecting it may feature an ultra high-resolution display and an A8X processor.”