AMOLED iPad 3 Is “Just Not Going To Happen For Apple”

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Remember yesterday’s sketchy report that Apple was looking to get Samsung to supply an AMOLED display for the iPad 3? So that’s not going to be happening, and it’s all because of the same problems that have plagued the tech from the start: the difficulty of ramping up large scale production on AMOLED displays.

The argument against OLED coming to the iPad 3 is made by OLED-Display, who spoke to many experts and analysts about Apple’s supposed AMOLED plans.

The consensus? Samsung’s new OLED facility will concentrate on small and medium-sized panels in quantities limited enough that Samsung may not even be able to delivering them for their own 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet.

Apparently, while Samsung hopes to get its capacity of 4-inch OLED panels up to 8 million per month by the end of this year, they won’t even start working on larger screen sizes (re: 6-9 inches) until 2012. Since the iPad boasts a 9.7-inch display, that puts an AMOLED-equipped iPad into 2013, at the earliest.

In fact, the OLED industry is so sure that Apple’s not getting on board the technology that Barry Young, director of the OLED association, said this: “It’s just not going to happen for Apple.”

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