A brand new rumor means that Apple has reached out to extra producers of small OLED-on-Silicon panels to gear up for one more blended actuality headset alongside the Apple Vision Pro.
At present, Sony provides the OLED-on-Silicon (OLEDoS) panels used within the present Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. The Elec, which covers Chinese language industrial tendencies, says that Apple has despatched a request for info to each Samsung and LG for potential panels.
Based on the report, Sony will proceed offering screens for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, however has no plans to extend manufacturing capability. It’s thought that Sony supplies Apple with as much as 900,000 such panels per 12 months.
An fascinating part of the report claims that Apple is on the lookout for manufacturing capability for OLEDoS panels which can be 2.0 to 2.1 inches. These are significantly bigger than the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s present 1.42-inch panels.
Nonetheless, the decision goal within the request for info means that the brand new panels would sport simply half the decision of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional panels. If correct, this is able to recommend that the elements might be utilized in a less-expensive, lower-resolution mixed-reality headset.
Earlier experiences have prompt that Apple is enthusiastic about a lower-priced headset product. Such a product might depend on being tethered to an iPhone or Mac to be able to decrease the associated fee and cut back the necessity for costly processors.
The corporate is alleged to even be persevering with work on a future up to date mannequin of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
The OLEDoS panels used within the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional use a know-how that includes a white OLED panel with coloration filters, or wOLED+CF. Samsung already has a working manufacturing line for such panels, whereas LG doesn’t at current.
Within the report, Samsung is claimed to need to provide Apple with a barely totally different know-how that includes RGB pixels proper into the OLED panel. This know-how might ship increased brightness ranges than the present wOLED+CF method.
The Elec is a prolific supply of knowledge from inside Apple’s provide chain, with a blended monitor file. It does higher on experiences that element the availability chain, and is much much less correct about what Apple’s plans are. Saturday’s report is extra the previous than the latter.