Apple will apparently utilize oxide TFT displays for its next-generation iPad models, allowing the tablets to consume drastically less power.
In order to gain a bigger piece of the pie, manufacturer LG Display (aka the world’s largest LCD panel maker) is reportedly investing in the necessary P8-P9 production-line technology in its plants in Paju, South Korea, according to new reports coming out of Asia.
At present, LG Display can manufacture 9,000 oxide TFT sheets per month, although it wants to up this by 21,000 units to produce a total of 30,000 sheets each month. Long-term, look for this number to increase even further, as LG aims to produce an additional 20,000 sheets in Q2 next year.
Why the big numbers? According to an unnamed LG Display official cited by a report from ETNews, it is so the manufacturer can create “iPads with 12.9-inch [displays]” for Apple, offering another tantalizing piece of evidence that Apple is working on a larger iPad, most commonly referred to as an iPad Pro.
Apple will reportedly source its oxide TFT displays from a combination of LG Display, Sharp and (who else?) Samsung Display.
Source: ETNews
Via: GforGames
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
5 responses to “Apple plans more power-efficient displays for next tablets, including iPad Pro”
As long as the rumored iPad Pro has an optional active stylus, I will be happy. The Surface Pen is awesome, and I’d like this option on the iPad.
Yeah, surface pen is really awesome!
For me to even consider an Ipad at this point it will have to include, a stylus, 3gb of RAM, and some form of USB for an external HD, mouse, etc… If not I will be getting a Surface.
Apple I think knows it will be losing a lot of sales to these Surface type tablets with the ability to run real programs. Maybe Apple will give us some type of hybrid of Mac OS and iOS. They need to do something. Really I mean Surface type tablets are REALLY nice.
Really, a mouse in an iPad?
Any mouse talk is tantamount to OSX talk.