Central News Agency, a Taiwanese publication, is reporting on remarks made by David Hsieh of DisplaySearch. He believes that Apple is set to use “in-cell” display technology in the next-generation iPhone. This technology is thinner due to the touch sensors being placed inside the color filters, instead of on top of them, as is currently done.
Additionally, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, has issued a report wherein he claims that a shift to this in-cell technology could help Apple significantly reduce the thickness of the iPhone. Specifically, the report notes that the thickness could be reduced to under 8mm, which is down significantly from iPhone 4/4S’ 9.3mm thickness.
Furthermore the report claims that a move to in-cell touch technology will decrease the thickness by .5mm, and Kuo believes that Apple will also widen and reduce the thickness of the battery as well, which would work out to be around 10% reduction of the battery size. Additionally, the report claims that around .5mm of thickness could be shaved off the device by replacing the glass backing with metal. All of this could bring the device’s thickness somewhere around 7.9mm.
Lastly, Kuo claims that with a shift to in-cell technology, display production for Apple would be simplified. In fact this could lower production time from 12-16 days to just 3-5 days, due to the fact that several suppliers and manufacturing processes would be involved.
In other words, if this is economically feasible for Apple to adopt this technology, I believe they most certainly will. It will allow them to reduce thickness, which always seems to be a goal, while also speeding up production time, which doesn’t hurt when demand is as high as it currently is.
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