Apple on the lookout for extra suppliers for future Apple Imaginative and prescient headset

Within Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

Presently, 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 offers Apple with as much as 900,000 such panels per yr.

An fascinating element 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.

Nevertheless, 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 could recommend that the elements may very well be utilized in a less-expensive, lower-resolution mixed-reality headset.

Earlier experiences have instructed that Apple is concerned with a lower-priced headset product. Such a product might depend on being tethered to an iPhone or Mac so as to decrease the price and scale 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 shade 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 wish to provide Apple with a barely completely different know-how that comes with RGB pixels proper into the OLED panel. This know-how might ship greater brightness ranges than the present wOLED+CF method.

The Elec is a prolific supply of knowledge from inside Apple’s provide chain, with a combined monitor report. It does higher on experiences that element the availability chain, and is way much less correct about what Apple’s plans are. Saturday’s report is extra the previous than the latter.