Apple develops thinner screens with better brightness for its future smartphones or tablets, and a laboratory in Taiwan is the location where the engineers from Cupertino go through this whole process.
No less than 50 company engineers Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and various other employees within the company are developing the screens of the future terminals iPhone and tablets iPad, Longtan being the city where this laboratory, secret until recently, of the Apple company is located.
Apple would have hired the staff from the laboratory from the companies AU Optronics and Qualcomm, both of its partners, the location being opened at the beginning of this year to develop thinner, lighter screens, with better brightness and lower consumption than the current ones.
In order to fulfill its goals and be able to create such products, the Apple company uses OLED screens that its engineers improve, and if the development process succeeds, then Apple will be able to reduce its dependence on Samsung, Sharp or Japan Display for the manufacture of screens dedicated to iDevices.
The Apple building in Longtan has at least 50 engineers and other workers creating new screens for devices including iPhones and iPads, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details aren't public. Apple has recruited from local display maker AU Optronics Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., which used to own the building, the people said.
Qualcomm had engineers in that location from 2008 until now, and some of them probably stayed to work for Apple, so the chances that these new types of OLED screens will be developed based on Apple's specifications are very high .
If Apple succeeds in creating its own screens for the iPhone or iPad, then it will control most of the way its own iDevices work, reducing not only the dependence on various companies, but also the production costs of these components.
For now, no one knows how long it will take until these screens are implemented in Apple products, but it is speculated that The iPhone 8 will have an OLED screen, so 2018 could be the year of the big change.
