It is reported that Samsung is developing OLED panels with a double-stacked series structure to win Apple’s orders. This move is undoubtedly to counter the Chinese panel company BOE’s seizure of orders from Apple. It is expected to use this technology on the iPad launched in 2024 as soon as possible. The panel is likely to be the improved QD-OLED technology that Samsung is mass-producing.
Samsung is currently promoting the mass production of QD-OLED panels for its TV products. QD-OLED is an improved product of OLED panel technology. Its light source is blue, which replaces the blue pixel of OLED, and then excites the light-emitting layer using quantum dot technology to obtain red and green, thereby obtaining RGB three primary colors.
Samsung's development of QD-OLED lies in the fact that the life of the blue pixels of the original OLED panel technology is shorter than that of the red and green pixels, so the OLED panel is prone to the problem of screen burn-in, which is only about 2 years of service life. Digital electronic products such as mobile phones have little impact, but have a great impact on OLED TVs with a lifespan of more than ten years. Therefore, the OLED panels launched by Samsung have made huge profits for the development of the mobile phone industry. LG will target OLED panels for the TV industry. Development has been hindered.
With the development of TV technology, the original LCD panel technology cannot meet the needs of consumers, especially for large-size TVs, and the resolution of today's TVs is getting higher and higher, from 1080P to 4K to today's 8K, all require Develop more advanced panel technology.
Although OLED panel technology has the problem of screen burn-in, it has the advantages of thinness, high contrast, and high brightness, and is increasingly recognized by the industry. Under such circumstances, Samsung, which has accumulated profound OLED panel technology, launched QD- for large-size display products. OLED panel technology.
In order to fight back against Chinese panel companies, Samsung has developed double-stacked OLED panels
Samsung's development of QD-OLED panel technology has now been recognized by Apple, which is a surprise for it. This move will help it get more orders from Apple and hit the Chinese panel company BOE.
Previously, Samsung once became Apple's only OLED panel supplier, which made a lot of money. However, BOE became Apple's OLED panel supplier last year. Because BOE's cost is lower and the price is naturally lower, Samsung lost a lot of money. Less profit, and countering BOE is undoubtedly a more advanced technological advantage.
Samsung has been producing OLED panels for 15 years, while BOE only put into production OLED panels in 2017. The accumulation of technology is precisely the weakness of BOE. Although BOE put into production OLED panels in 2017, it took 4 years to improve OLED panel technology, and it only met Apple's requirements last year. It can be seen that there is still a big gap between it and Samsung in terms of technology.
Although the burn-in problem has little effect on the iPhone, it still exists. After all, the short-lived mobile phones are all Android mobile phones, while the iPhone has a much longer lifespan. At present, there are still iPhone users using the iPhone6, which has such a long lifespan. Of course, it is more suitable to use the improved QD-OLED.
The outgoing iPad will also use Samsung's dual-screen overlay technology OLED panel, which may also be a QD-OLED panel. At present, Apple has adopted miniLED on the iPad. Compared with OLED, miniLED has the problem of smaller viewing angle and thicker thickness. It may be because of this reason that Apple intends to switch to OLED on iPad. It happens that Samsung's QD-OLED improved It solves the problem of burn-in and meets Apple's requirements.
If Apple adopts Samsung's QD-OLED panel, then Samsung may once again become Apple's only OLED panel supplier and gain huge profits again, because so far only Samsung has developed QD-OLED panel technology that improves OLED panel technology, and other panels Companies have failed to develop this technology.