iPad Pro OLED Panels Rumored To Start Production In 2024

According to the Korea Herald, Apple is expected to begin production of OLED displays for its next-gen iPad Pro in February 2024. MacRumors reports: Sources familiar with the matter speaking to the Korea Herald claim that LG Display is set to initiate OLED production for the new iPad Pro as early as February next year at their facility in Paju, Gyeonggi Province -- a time frame around three months sooner than previously expected. The displays are expected to be three times the price of those used in iPhones, which could translate to higher prices for customers. [...] Apple is reportedly seeking around 10 million OLED panels for the iPad in 2024. LG is expected to supply around 60% of the OLED panels, with the remaining portion supplied by Samsung, which is expected to focus on the 11-inch model only. Production of the panels for the next-generation iPad Pro is expected to help LG Displays' financial recovery next year. LG and Samsung are said to be currently finalizing price negotiations with Apple.

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Great, now I can't wait to mortgage my house to buy the new iPad Pro. Can't miss out on those extra pixels while I scroll through cat memes and argue about Vim vs Emacs. Meanwhile, LG and Samsung executives are playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who gets the bigger slice of my wallet.

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[jacks smirking reven]

I remember in the aughts and early 2010's when OLED's were always on that "any year now!" hype train the selling point was always that they were going to be so much cheaper to product than traditional LCD panels since they didn't need special glass and filters, they could be "printed" like inkjets onto various substrates and such.

While they are more and more common today for sure I wonder if they'll ever transition to being the more cost effective option, seems like the time they figure the blue color issue

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[DamnOregonian]

Color OLEDs have been common on the high end for over a decade.
The "blue color issue" is sorted, at least insomuch as it realistically can be. Burn-in tests consistently demonstrate that it requires nearly absurd conditions to begin to cause noticeable degradation on good panels.

My TV is OLED, My ASUS laptop is OLED, my wife's HP laptop is OLED, my Samsung tablet is OLED, my iPhone is OLED, my Apple Watch is OLED.
Fuck, the little status readout on my Anker power brick is OLED.

One wonder just how much

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[jacks smirking reven]

https://www.tomsguide.com/news... [tomsguide.com]

If the best OLED TVs have any fault, it’s that they don’t get as bright as the top-tier LED-LCD TVs like Samsung’s QLED TV lineup. But that’s something everyone is interested in changing.

Key to that happening are a new breakthrough from the Universal Display Company (UDC), the main supplier of OLED panels to LG Display, BOE and Samsung Display, who say that it’ll soon be transitioning from a fluorescent blue OLED backlight to a phosphorescent on

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[DamnOregonian]

If the best OLED TVs have any fault, it’s that they don’t get as bright as the top-tier LED-LCD TVs like Samsung’s QLED TV lineup. But that’s something everyone is interested in changing.

That's not even accurate, though.
OLED panels will match LED in brightness. The catch is you don't want to do it except as transients (like HDR content), because you will destroy those over-driven OLED pixels.
LG's current OLED can hit 2.1knits.
The accurate way to say it, would be "If the best OLED TVs have any fault, it'd be that if you set their brightness very high on SDR content, they will have a drastically shortened lifetime. So do not place in direct sunlight or high-light locations."

Key to that happening are a new breakthrough from the Universal Display Company (UDC), the main supplier of OLED panels to LG Display, BOE and Samsung Display, who say that it’ll soon be transitioning from a fluorescent blue OLED backlight to a phosphorescent one and the introduction of something called micro lenses.

Yawn. That guy'

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[BigZee]

It might be the case that new panels don't have a problem with degradation but that's not the case on older ones. My LG OLED TV is around 6-7 years old. Within 2 years, it had hearts in the top left from playing BOTW and a number of blocks on the bottom right from youtube. Within the last year or two it's developed a series of faint bars across the lower third of the screen that I can only attribute to subtitles.

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[DamnOregonian]

That's sad.
Some panels (or maybe it's firmwares) do tend to have problems more than others.

I just looked at a static burn-in test for a 6 year old LG OLED, and the only one that showed burn-in after 4,000 hours was the one that had a static banner playing at full brightness.
The other 5 looked fine.

I will say this- if your OLED TV is placed in a place where you need full brightness on SDR content- then move it, because you will wreck it.
They drive those OLEDs far, far higher than other devices to matc

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[UnknowingFool]

LCD is far more common than OLED is what probably what he means. Yes OLED displays have been available but they have not replaced LCD for majority of consumers in the same way LCD replaced CRT as the display technology of TVs and monitors. Going forward variants of LED like quantum dot LED might be the best technology rather than OLED. OLED had a window of opportunity where they could have been the best technology for displays, but the recent introduction of HDR has made LED competitive with OLED as OLED do

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[DamnOregonian]

LCD is far more common than OLED is what probably what he means.

That's just it. I'm quite certain it isn't.
Every phone and smart watch you see around you right now is OLED.
Other than Samsung QLED TVs, most of those are OLED as well.
Computer screens are definitely one place where I wouldn't say that OLED has huge penetration discrete, and laptop, however, on the high-end- universally OLED (if you exclude Apple's dying attempt to stick with Mini-LED)

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[UnknowingFool]

Every phone and smart watch you see around you right now is OLED.

More and more phones and watches are using OLED. I can assure you that they have used and still use LCD. For example high end phones like Samsung Galaxy S series use AMOLED but some of the A series still uses LCD. At price difference of up to $500 that is to be expected that the lower cost phones may not use OLED. I am also asserting that more people will buy an A series than the S series due to price alone.

And that only covers phones. For displays in general, LCD is used more because it is cheaper and the

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[DamnOregonian]

More and more phones and watches are using OLED.

No. Nearly all.

For example high end phones like Samsung Galaxy S series use AMOLED but some of the A series still uses LCD.

Some do, yes.

At price difference of up to $500 that is to be expected that the lower cost phones may not use OLED. I am also asserting that more people will buy an A series than the S series due to price alone.

Who needs assertions when we have data.
US Phone Market:
OLED Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max: 26.5 million OLED Apple iPhone Pro: 21 million OLED Apple iPhone 14: 16.5 million OLED Apple iPhone 13: 15.5 million LCD Samsung Galaxy A14: 12.4 million OLED Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: 9.6 million LCD Samsung Galaxy A14 5G: 9 million OLED Samsung Galaxy A54 5G:8.8 million OLED Samsung Galaxy A34 5G: 7.1 million OLED Apple iPhone 11: 6.9 million
It's true that ~16

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[DamnOregonian]

My sincerest apologies for the fucked up formatting of the market data.
Re-posting with a dash of competency.

OLED: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max: 26.5 million
OLED: Apple iPhone Pro: 21 million
OLED: Apple iPhone 14: 16.5 million
OLED: Apple iPhone 13: 15.5 million
LCD: Samsung Galaxy A14: 12.4 million
OLED: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: 9.6 million
LCD: Samsung Galaxy A14 5G: 9 million
OLED: Samsung Galaxy A54 5G:8.8 million
OLED: Samsung Galaxy A34 5G: 7.1 million
OLED: Apple iPhone

Again?

[WankerWeasel]

This was the rumor for the 2021 model.... when that happened it was the rumor for the 2022 model... when that didn't happen it was the 2023 model... and now 2024... They just keep throwing out the same random guess. Eventually it will happen and they'll act like they predicted it.

Next years model will be better than this years. And the 2025 will be better than the 2024. When this prediction comes true, I expect every time I make such predictions you'll give me and my clickbait guesses front-page billing on Slashdot too.

PS Vita

[Saffaya]

So funny to see all those guys running to do OLED now (switch, steamdeck, iPad, ...) when the PS Vita was OLED on day one.

And that was in 2011, a freaking 12 years ago.

Yes, the company making the Vita is awful, but if they made only one good product, the Vita it is.

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[ZERO1ZERO]

what's funny about it?

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[drinkypoo]

PS Vita 5" 960x544
Switch OLED 7" 720p
Steam Deck OLED 7.4" 1280x800
iPad, at least 10.9"

Gee I wonder why the Vita got an OLED screen first

Three times the price...

[dragisha]

Meaning cheaper than the iPhone, when the display area is accounted for?

Journalism these days.

Supposedly everyone copies apple, but now...

[Luckyo]

We finally found out who's apple is copying.

Valve with their new steam deck.