Apple will buy almost half of the flexible OLED screens produced in the next 4 years, according to a company specialized in monitoring the market of smartphone component manufacturers, the percentage to be grabbed by the Americans being a colossal one, in relation to the rest of the terminal manufacturers mobile.
According to those from UBI Research, 47% of the total production of flexible OLED screens from 2016 to 2020 will go to the Apple company, those from Cupertino preparing in 2017 the launch of the first iPhone that has a screen manufactured using this technology, and for it will many components are needed.
According to estimates, 28 billion dollars will be spent between 2016 and 2020 for the purchase of flexible OLED screens that will end up in smartphones, and 13 billion of this amount will be paid by Apple alone to ensure components dedicated to future iPhone terminals.
Although Apple represents only 15% of total smartphone sales, the American company is going to capture 47% of the production of flexible OLED screens, even though it will still buy LCD screens for the current models of iDevices available worldwide, they will also be sold in the future.
According to UBI Research, orders from Apple alone could make up about 47 percent of the global equipment market for sixth-generation flexible OLED, worth US$28.4 billion for the next five years. UBI predicts that Apple will adopt OLED display screen for its new iPhone from next year and the full adoption will come in 2018.
Basically, Apple will be the only one responsible for half of the revenues of the producers of flexible OLED screens, at the moment the American company is keeping alive many companies that produce LCD screens, the latter being prepared to invest billions of dollars to produce flexible OLED screens in the following years.
Apple's move to implement flexible OLED screens in the iPhone is an auspicious change that will provide terminals with better screens for customers, but we will have to wait until next year for the new components to be used, with Apple preparing major changes in 2017 for the iPhone line.
