“It looks like LG Display is going to be a key supplier of components for at least some of Apple’s upcoming iPhones,” Ashraf Eassa writes for The Motley Fool.
“LG Display, which generated roughly 22% of its revenue last quarter from selling mobile displays, is set to provide Apple with 20 million liquid crystal displays (LCD) and between 3 million and 4 million organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, according to DigiTimes and Newspim,” Eassa writes. “The LCDs should be for Apple’s upcoming mainstream iPhone with a 6.1-inch display, which is expected to be the most popular of Apple’s upcoming iPhones, while the OLED displays are said to be for Apple’s highest-end iPhone with a 6.5-inch display. Moreover, LG Display is reportedly ‘likely to secure the majority of 6.5-inch OLED panel orders from Apple in 2019.'”
“If this report is accurate, this will be the first time that LG Display will supply more advanced OLED displays to the Mac Maker,” Eassa writes. “The fact that the Mac Maker thinks that LG Display’s technology is good enough to use in what will soon be its highest-end iPhone, seems like an important — and positive — development for LG Display’s mobile OLED screen efforts.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We love it when people refer to Apple as “Mac Maker!” And, corngrats (typo and it’s staying) to LG Display. Anybody that takes business away from slavish copier Samsung can’t be all bad, even Lucky Goldstar (also an iPhone knockoff peddler).
This is good news for a change. It be even better news when one day LG can supply the OLED screens Apple so desperately need to diversy itself from samscum
sorry for the TYPO, i meant to say “this is even better news that LG can supply the OLED screens Apple so desperately needs to diversify itself from samscum
Wonder if it would be worth it to spend Apple’s cash pile to acquire LG display? Reason being to ween them off of Samsung 100% in ten years …
“won a ton”, was that meant to be funny? A kind of pan-asian joke? I mean, wonton is a Cantonese, southern Chinese word, and LG is Korean. Totally different place, language and food.