What’s The Upside For Samsung If It Wins Apple’s iPhone Display Business?
According to a source cited by the Chinese edition of the Wall Street Journal, Samsung will be supplying about 100 million 5.5″OLED displays for Apple’s iPhone (Potentially the 7S Plus) in 2017. [1] Apple currently uses LCD displays on its 6 series devices, sourced from LG Display and Japan Display. The rationale for a shift towards OLEDs could be two fold. Firstly, the cost of OLED panels has declined significantly, to a point where they are slightly cheaper to manufacture compared to LCD panels. [2] Secondly, there will be some performance benefits such as lower power consumption and better contrast levels. Below, we estimate the potential upside to Samsung’s display and overall revenues if it wins Apple’s business in 2017.
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- Apple orders 100 million Samsung OLED panels for the 2017 iPhone, GSM Arena, April 2016 [↩]
- Production cost of AMOLED screens is now lower than LCD’s, GSM Arena, March 2016 [↩]