Apple opens secret plant to make thinner, more efficient displays

According to several analysts, Apple will use OLED displays on their iPhones in the medium term future. As if the rumors and analyst reports were not enough, now it has been known that Apple has opened a production laboratory in northern Taiwan where they are developing new technologies. According to Bloomerang, in this laboratory there would be at least 50 engineers and other workers creating displays for devicesAmong those who are, how could it be otherwise, iPhone, iPad and iPod.

Apple has started working in this laboratory this year and its objective is to create screens thinner, lighter, brighter and more efficient, which would help improve the autonomy of the devices. Bloomerang is also considering the possibility that those from Cupertino change the type of screen of their devices to OLED screens, something that we have already read in several rumors that circulated around the network at the end of November / beginning of December.

If Apple works directly on the development of new display technologies, they will reduce their dependence on other companies such as Samsung, LG and Sharp. It remains to be seen what Tim Cook and company have in mind with the results obtained from the studies carried out in this laboratory. It is possible that they do as with the processors, that Apple designs a way to make them so that they can then manufacture it in companies like Foxconn. Most of their studies are done in Cupertino or California, but Apple does not have its own factories, but rather outsources labor to manufacture its devices.

On the other hand, those in Cupertino have also hired several AU Optronics employees and Qualcomm to work on the premises, a facility previously owned by Qualcomm. According to information from Bloomerang, Apple started working on this lab last April.