Igeekphone on March 13 news, Ross Young, CEO of the screen supply chain consulting company, recently tweeted that Apple may release an iPad Pro with OLED panels in April this year.
Release date
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman recently published the latest issue of the Power On newsletter, which mentioned that Apple plans to release the new iPad Pro and iPad Air models in “late March or around April.”
Therefore, some netizens believe that Apple delayed the release of the OLED version of iPad Pro, Ross Yang said in the interaction that Apple’s panel production is not delayed, the panel began to ship from February this year, and it is estimated that Apple will release iPad Pro OLED products in April.
Initial stock of 8.5 million pieces
IT House previously reported that there are currently two suppliers of the OLED version of iPad Pro, with an initial stock of 8.5 million pieces, worth 3.9 trillion won.
Among them, LG Display was selected as the OLED display supplier for the 13-inch iPad Pro, with a production capacity of 4.5 million this year. Considering that the price of the 12.9-inch panel is 380 to 390 US dollars, the transaction price is expected to be 1.755 billion US dollars (about 12.636 billion yuan at present).
In addition, Samsung Display has been selected as the OLED supplier for the 11-inch model, with a production capacity of about 4 million this year and a supply scale expected to be $1.16 billion (currently about 8.352 billion yuan). At present, Samsung and LG have respectively started mass production of Apple iPad Pro panels on their 6th generation OLED production lines.
Ross Yang said in a tweet that compared to the 13-inch version, the demand for 11-inch OLED panels is larger, so Apple plans to let LG also join it to supplement Samsung’s delivery capacity, so he said in a tweet: “Starting this month, two suppliers supply 11.1-inch products.”