Apple is setting up an R&D line in Taiwan to reduce its reliance on other companies for OLED displays: currently, LG supplies the screens for the Apple Watch, while Samsung will provide the panels for the upcoming iPhone 8. They say that we could be seeing these in-house screens as early as next year.



Apple is steering away from the dependence it currently has on Samsung’s OLED screens. This move also breaks the monopoly by Canon Tokki, a leading provider of CVD machinery. In 2017 it supplied sets of OLED manufacturing equipment to Samsung and has plans to keep doing so next year. LG Display is another buyer of Canon Tokki’s equipment. The company is currently producing OLED panels for Xiaomi and Google, but Apple is for now staying away from its displays. This is another step towards Apple’s goal of making a fully in-house smartphone.

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