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MicroLED, the technological successor to the popular OLED display technology, is looking to finally come to market after years of R&D at the big players in the technology space. 

 

New reports from Digitimes are out claiming that major iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, is working on securing orders of MicroLED panels from Apple. Potentially for an upcoming iPhone. 

 

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MicroLED offers big potential advantages over OLED screens, such as the Super Retina displays Apple features in the iPhone XS and XS Max. These include higher levels of brightness and more stability. They can also offer the same high contrast, extreme blacks, and fast response time as OLED.

Most importantly though, MicroLED is not susceptible to burn in. Making MicroLED effectively a much superior display technology which should replace OLED entirely as it has none of the drawbacks and all the benefits. 

 

Apple has, for some time now, been interested in the application of MicroLED: 

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Potential applications have been singled out as everything from Apple Watches to Macs. As far as I’m aware, this is one of the first times the iPhone has been mentioned as a possible recipient.

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Foxconn currently has three subsidiaries working to build equipment for MicroLED technology. These include Advanced Optoelectronic Technology, Epileds Technologies, and Marketech International. Between them, they are developing the necessary chips and production equipment for MicroLED displays.

 

Personally I thought Apple would try MicroLED out first on the Apple Watch. Given that it’s a particularly small display, however much like traditional LCD displays, MicroLED displays might be cheaper in larger cuts. So that’s why they may decide to go with an iPhone, or potentially an iPad over a smaller device. 

 

It will be some time before we see a MicroLED iPhone though, so wouldn’t expect one until at least 2020. 

 

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https://www.cultofmac.com/622506/future-iphones-could-boast-microled-displays/

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RIP OLed, go play with Plasma...

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An indication other OEMS will also switch or is this for now Apple only thing? I know Samsung has been playing with it for a while now. 

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2 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

An indication other OEMS will also switch or is this for now Apple only thing? I know Samsung has been playing with it for a while now. 

Foxconn is the focus of this story and they are only focused on Apple atm. 

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Still kind of irritated that it is so commonly referred and accepted as "burn in".

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2 minutes ago, Dylanc1500 said:

Still kind of irritated that it is so commonly referred and accepted as "burn in".

What is is supposed to be called then? 

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21 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

What is is supposed to be called then? 

Well it's luminance degradation. So I guess "burning out" would be a bit more accurate.

 

Admittitdly I'm being a bit pokey.

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LEDs have been around for a long time, what's the difficulty with microLED? Don't they scale down well?

 

In my other hobby of fish keeping, the switch to LED lighting helped a lot compared to previous lighting technologies, but if you want brightness they can still get through quite some power. Also life isn't exactly unlimited either. Again, depends on brightness and how well you cool them, but a fear will be dead pixels over time if they get that wrong.

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5 minutes ago, porina said:

what's the difficulty with microLED? 

Did you read the post? MicroLED isn’t just smaller LEDs 

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16 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Did you read the post? MicroLED isn’t just smaller LEDs 

I don't see that part discussed in OP or source link.

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7 minutes ago, porina said:

I don't see that part discussed in OP or source link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLED

 

it’s biggest feature is infinite contrast which is hard to do with LCD tech. 

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7 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLED

 

it’s biggest feature is infinite contrast which is hard to do with LCD tech. 

Thanks for the link, it is still more about that what it does, not how it does it. I think I'll have to dig further separately.

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I can't wait mled all the way! That should be when my next iphone upgrade would be from my iphone 7plus. 

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1 hour ago, porina said:

Thanks for the link, it is still more about that what it does, not how it does it. I think I'll have to dig further separately.

pretty sure its local dimming on steroids 

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pretty sure its local dimming on steroids 

No, MicroLED has the technical ability to actually turn off individual pixels. Just like OLED. That’s why it’s such a better display technology than anything out right now. 

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3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

No, MicroLED has the technical ability to actually turn off individual pixels. Just like OLED. That’s why it’s such a better display technology than anything out right now. 

thats pretty much local dimming on steroids :|, in the end its all in the backlight, simply instead of 300 local areas its the same number as the pixels 

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2 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

thats pretty much local dimming on steroids :|, in the end its all in the backlight, simply instead of 300 local areas its the same number as the pixels 

No. As far as I’m away it is handled at the pixel level, not the backlight. That wouldn’t offer anything over OLED while MicroLED is being developed as a direct replacement of OLED. 

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mLED monitors are gonna be DOPE

 

 

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10 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

thats pretty much local dimming on steroids :|, in the end its all in the backlight, simply instead of 300 local areas its the same number as the pixels 

With mLED the pixels ARE the backlight.  The way lcds work is by shining a light through a grid of liquid crystals which can block the light or let it pass, creating the image.  With mLED/oLED light is selectively turned on, rather than blocked.  See the LTT vid. on the oled monitor: 

 

Edit: also, with oled/mled each subpixel (the color part) is it's own thing, like in an rgb led, vs color filters on an lcd. 

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Samsung stocks gonna hurt SO bad when apple switches to Foxconn for screens. 

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Wonder how the power consumption compares with this tech.

 

If thats equal or lower as well, then I would certainly want this in my phone!

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Cool. But yeah I'm excited to see it for monitors one day! 4K 240Hz MicroLED give it to me! 

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17 hours ago, suits said:

Samsung stocks gonna hurt SO bad when apple switches to Foxconn for screens. 

iPhone displays are such a small amount of Samsung's business that it won't affect them much at all, they will still supply dram and band chips both of which are in much higher demand than OLED screens.

 

Plus Samsung are already capable of making microled panels as they have already shown off TVs earlier in the year. If foxxcon can't meet apples demand, they might split supply between them and Samsung, or just stick with Samsung anyway

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