OLED’s apparently not up to their standards for larger devices. Production is also extremely difficult in larger sizes, seeing as LG is still the only manufacturer of OLED television panels. (Vizio and Sony are using LG’s panels for their OLED TV’s.)
Sounds amazing definitely looking forward to it.
Apple's 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Mini-LED display will launch in the first quarter of 2021, according to a new report from DigiTimes. The report claims that Apple has diversified its supply chain for displays and touch panels, with BOE finally gaining approval to supply OLED panels for the iPhone and GIS moving to provide touch panels for both the iPhone and the upcoming iPad Pro.
Apple has been rumored for some time to be preparing a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with a Mini-LED display, which will offer a number of improvements over current iPad displays, including darker blacks, brighter brights, richer colors, and better contrast. Using thousands of individual LEDs to light the display, the technology should deliver many of the benefits offered by OLED displays but without some of the drawbacks of that technology.
Previous reports, including from noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, have indicated that the Mini-LED iPad Pro will launch sometime in the first half of 2021, but today's report from DigiTimes indicates that the debut is expected in the early part of that timeframe.
Looking beyond the next-generation iPad Pro, there have been a couple of reports claiming that Apple is looking to transition the line to OLED display technology, although it seems unlikely for Apple to only briefly shift to Mini-LED before transitioning again to OLED. One rumor claimed the OLED iPad Pro will launch in the second half of 2021, but a more recent report claims the change is unlikely to happen until 2022 at the earliest.
Article Link: 12.9-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in First Quarter of 2021
I totally agree that way you don't have that issue of potential burn in
LEDs are constant voltage, so you’d control the brightness by controlling the current. Most adjustable voltage or current DC supplies are really just some sort of variable duty cycle switch (ie. PWM) feeding a filter stage to smooth the ripple. It might be worth filtering the supply to a single backlight array, but for a mini-LED type display you’d presumably need a thousand filters. The filter usually involves some sort of inductive component to smooth the current, and inductors tend to be bulky.
Are you suggesting people have been using the same OLED Samsung device as a daily driver for 10 years? Cause that seems highly unlikely and I expect 8-12 years of functional use from a laptop.
I honestly don’t think people understand how ‘burn-in (image retention) works. Have you ever even observed a case with Burn-in on any of the iPhones with OLED panels since the iPhone X? I haven’t. It’s more prevalent on like LG TV’s for example, even with the most minor case of image retention, it’s barely noticeable. The most severe cases are generally in the middle of the display, even though it’s not common.
I predict the display marketing name will be called "Super Pro (?) XDR Display" as opposed to Pro Display XDR, which is used for the Mac Pro display.
M is for Mac. A is for iOS. iPad won’t get Thunderbolt or the extra PCIe lanes of the M1. It’ll probably be clocked lower too and have 6gb ram (8 might be possible) also probably have 6 or 7 gpu cores instead of 8.
Keep dreaming for microLED for the next 5-6 years
