Apple is in fact going to use OLED display panels from the Chinese company BOE for the iPhone 14 lineaccording to a new report from China today.
It is reported that BOE’s panels for the upcoming iPhones were certified by Apple last Thursday, and BOE plans to start mass-producing them before the end of this month. Mass shipments of the panels to Apple will take place in September, the month in which the Cupertino company traditionally announces new iPhones.
The role of BOE in the iPhone 14 supply chain doubted for a few weeks after Apple discovered that BOE had unilaterally altered some design elements of its iPhone 13 panels. The Chinese display maker for a while wash in hot waterbut the tide has apparently now turned and BOE will continue to supply Apple for its upcoming products.
BOE is expected to ship only 6.1-inch LTPS OLED panels for the vanilla iPhone 14. Industry insiders estimate that Apple will order 90 million displays for the iPhone 14 family this year, 60 million of which will come from Samsung. Display, 25 million from LG Display, and 5 million from BOE. BOE has previously supplied the panels for both the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 13†