Apple’s iPhone displays are linked to the South Korean company LG Display in a news report. On thursday, LG Display announced it will spend 1.05 trillion won over the next two years to build a factory for flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The Thursday report teased a dot for connection: In the future, Apple may be hatching iPhones that will have flexible screens.
The flat panel maker runs two production lines in Gumi and Paju, north of Seoul. The Paju facility makes large-size OLED panels for TVs and smartphones; most of the smaller OLEDs for wearables and vehicle parts are produced in Gumi. The new factory will be in Gumi and will have a monthly capacity of 75 million sheets, four times higher than that of its existing flexible OLED facility, according to the Yonhap News Agency. LG Display in its Thursday announcement also said that flexible OLED display has emerged as a lucrative profit source for wide use in other devices such as watches and vehicle dashboards. “Flexible displays have been seen as the next generation of screens for various consumer products ranging from smartphones and smartwatches to TVs, but producing such displays requires highly sophisticated and complex manufacturing techniques,” said Min-Jeong Lee in The Wall Street Journal.
Talk about Apple taking on new screen types in the future, meanwhile, also made headlines last month, when BusinessKorea said Apple may have curved iPhones by 2018……
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