Apple Will Be More Reliant on Samsung Display for iPhone 15 Production
Chinese manufacturer BOE can't mass produce the OLED displays required for the the iPhone 15, leaving Apple with little choice other than ask Samsung to make more of them.
As TheElec reports(Opens in a new window), Apple awarded BOE an order for iPhone 15 standard model displays, but the company has struggled to produce them. The problem is one of light leakage around the hole near the top of the display used for the dynamic island. BOE couldn't solve the problem in time, so Apple has been left with a production hole that needs filling.
The solution is a bigger order for Samsung Display, which is now expected to start production of standard model iPhone 15 OLED panels a month early in May. Samsung Display's production of the higher-end iPhone 15 model displays will go ahead as planned in June. BOE is expected to continue working on a solution to its light leakage problem in the hope that mass production becomes possible soon.
Apple uses different display materials depending on the model of smartphone being manufactured. The standard iPhone 15 and 15 Plus use low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT), which BOE and Samsung Display were both expected to produce. Meanwhile, the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max use a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) TFT, which Samsung Display and LG Display will produce.
Apple began trial production of the iPhone 15 in January, and all models are expected to use the Dynamic Island. The new iPhones will be the first Apple ships with a USB-C port, and the high-end models should use a 3nm version of the A17 processor.
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