They would be in the same situation they are now, barely meeting demand.
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Samsung Aiming to Supply OLED Displays for Both iPads and MacBooks
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Exactly! I do some light drawing, but just for fun. My iPads main use is a bedroom and travel TV, oled would be fantastic. I would love a move to 16x10 as well but I doubt it
I wouldn’t want the off axis blue shift I get on my watch and phone on my iPad or laptop. IMHO, OLED still has some work to do in this area.
And what would Samsung and TSMC be without ASML? ASML manufactures the DUV/EUV lithography machines that enable TSMC and Samsung to produce such high-density chips. Without those machines, they wouldn't be the chip leaders they are. And what would ASML be without...etc...etc... It goes on and on.
So the point isn't whether a company needs to purchase tech from another company. They all do. It's the most efficient way to do things, since no one can specialize in everything. Or do you think Toyota should be mining its own iron? What matters is whether a company is *merely* a repackager, or is adding its own tech or innovation to the process. Apple is doing the latter, including with its M-series chip design.
See ASML's DUV lithography systems
ASML's deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography systems dive deep into the UV spectrum to print the tiny features that form the basis of the microchip.www.asml.com
All chip makers pretty much use ASML to make their chips.
I am fairly certain it’s a custom graphic that’s actually designed by their “graphic designer” that is employed under Macrumors. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you’ll see a link to all the employees with their designated titles, then you can send a message direct.
Yep, you see them here bashing Samsung without mercy when they make (or made in the past) iPhone’s screen, battery, storage, RAM, CPU, and other components.
If Samsung made “the wall” , the giant microled display years ago then why hasn’t the tech been able to be scaled down and made affordable yet?
Still kicking. Smartphones were becoming a thing without Apple's help, they just pushed it faster. What you maybe meant, where would RIM/Blackberry be without Apple?
MicroLED is basically nonexistent in terms of being mass-produced tech. Especially with supply relations being constrained as it is, then add finding the adequate suppliers to produce micro LED, it’s years out in terms of being ubiquitous.
MicroLED has been discussed for at least three, maybe four years now, and nothing has really progressed. It’s just technology that isn’t readily available to be produced to the yield of what Apple would require for a number of panels across their lineup.
The new QD-OLED TVs and monitors have the lowest off-axis color and brightness shifts of any modern display technology. (Plasma and CRT were good with this property, but no longer available, of course). So there’s nothing inherent in OLED tech that means good viewing angles aren’t possible. But mobile tech often uses different compromises than bigger screens. My iPad quite a lot more brightness loss off-axis than my cheap (but still IPS) desktop monitors.
One disadvantage of current QD-OLED displays is that the screens reflect indirect light more, so the blacks aren’t as good in well-lit environments.
Google acquired MicroLED startup Raxium so hopefully we'll see it soon in products. The subpixel density is a huge step up from AMOLED.
Yep, iPhones have so much Samsung inside that makes them be more samsungPhones than iPhones.
In the US, at least, the wireless carriers had complete control over the market, and were really the customers for the phone manufacturers. The wireless carriers picked and chose what they deigned to give to their end users. Apple negotiated vigorously, finally got Cingular/AT&T to cave, and got a system where there was a strong direct connection between the phone manufacturer and the end user - they were more interested in making phones with compelling features the end users wanted, rather than satisfying the wireless carriers' whims. It kind of broke the market open, in the US. And things advanced much faster than they would have otherwise, into a world where smartphones are a platform, rather than just devices from a wireless carrier.
You can go out today and get an 88" OLED TV, so it comes down more to price and supply issues (and pixel density, which gets back to price).
Isn’t blue the color of light we are supposed to be avoiding for eye “burnout”?Its been a few months since I last watched videos on the technology and how it was comparing. Alienware has the first commercial monitor based on it and has a no burn-in guarantee.
Basically, one of the traditional ways of doing OLED was a white OLED panel that goes through a color filter. This filter loses brightness, so they add a 4th pixel of white to add luminosity.
QD-OLED uses a blue OLED panel with quantum dots in front that absorb and re-emit photons in red and green. The blue that comes through is the original blue from the back panel. Its brighter than using a color filter, which means the actual OLED panel isn't driven as hard, which means you aren't pushing into burn-in territory (theoretically)...and you don't need a 4th pixel. They also use 3 layers of Blue OLED to get the full brightness, again, reducing the wear and tear that turns into burn-in.
LTT had some videos both on the tech and reviewing the Alienware monitor.
This is a pretty long comparison of multiple display technologies, QD-OLED starts about a third of the way down.
What is QD-OLED? The hybrid TV tech fully explained
QD-OLED technology delivers the kind of TV picture quality we’ve been dreaming about for years. Here’s everything you need to know about QD-OLEDs.www.digitaltrends.com