Apple Could Ditch Samsung With Its Own MicroLED Displays for Apple Watch, iPhone

Among escalating tensions with Qualcomm, Apple could supercede the flake-maker's modems with those from MediaTek in its iPhones and iPads going forwards. Now, the company may also be prepping to go rid of Samsung's display panels from its smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, according to Bloomberg, which spoke to 'people familiar with the situation' at Apple.

The written report claims Apple is designing and producing a small number of 'MicroLED' display panels in a "secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters" with a view towards using the new engineering its consumer devices going forward. The company is said to be assembling prototype MicroLED screens at the secretive R&D center, while the backplanes are being developed at the company'south Taiwan facility.

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The report as well says that, the company is investing massive amounts of coin to develop MicroLED screens, which will be first used in a time to come Apple tree Watch model. It isn't, however, immediately articulate when the panels volition be ready for mass product.

In case you're not enlightened, MicroLED (or µLED) panels consist of arrays of microscopic LEDs that grade each individual pixel and, offer better contrast, higher effulgence, faster response times and greater energy efficiency when compared to the current technologies. They are also said to accept longer life-spans than OLED panels that are used in near high-end smartphones these days.

While MicroLED displays have the potential to make gadgets slimmer, brighter and less power-hungry, they are even so to be commercialized generally because they're notoriously hard to manufacture at scale. In fact, Apple tree is believed to have nearly killed off the projection a couple of years agone, and has only revived it now because engineers have made plenty progress to make it a commercially viable alternative to standard OLED panels in use today.