Our friend Kuo explained today that Apple is going to accelerate the introduction of mini-LED technology in the next MacBooks and iPads to be launched on the market. Why? Simply because the Chinese have put the batteries, and today there are more manufacturers of mini-LED panels than six months ago.
Obviously, being a new technology, panel manufacturers must adapt their plants to be able to manufacture it. Today they are several suppliers that are capable of making such panels, and Apple is going to take advantage of it, no doubt.
The well-known Korean analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has just published a report where it explains that Apple is going to accelerate the implementation of the new technology of mini-LED screens, in the next models of MacBook and iPads that are launched on the market, due to the significant increase in manufacturers capable of supplying mini LED panels in recent months.
Kuo explains that while Epistar believed it was the exclusive mini-LED board supplier for Apple products in 2021, Sanan Optoelectronics It has put the batteries and has seen better development than expected in such display technology, and it will also start supplying Apple in 2021 instead of 2022 as planned.
Thanks to this sudden increase in production, Kuo hopes that the technology Mini-LED show up on roughly 30-40% of iPads made and 20-30% of MacBooks in 2021, compared to previous estimates of 10-20% manufacturing share for both product lines.
Kuo already predicted a few months ago that Apple has six mini-LED products scheduled to launch within the next year. Such devices would be a 12,9-inch iPad Pro, a 27-inch iMac Pro, a 14,1-inch MacBook Pro, a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a 10,2-inch iPad, and a 7,9-inch iPad mini. inches.