Apple Reportedly Canceled Orders of Chinese iPhone 17 Pro Displays

Apple has reportedly reassigned BOE's planned OLED sheet allocation for the iPhone 17 Pro to Samsung aft the Chinese supplier failed to resoluteness reliability issues up of wide production, according to a caller study from ZDNet Korea.


BOE was preparing to supply up to 10 cardinal OLED panels for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ successful the Chinese marketplace aft receiving archetypal mass-production support from Apple aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th of 2025. The supplier's advancement seemingly stalled owed to unresolved method problems affecting sheet reliability, yield, and performance, making it incapable to conscionable Apple's LTPO show requirements.

BOE had not antecedently supplied LTPO OLED panels to Apple, which enactment features similar always-on and ProMotion for refresh rates up to 120Hz. It was purportedly hoping to proviso astatine slightest 40 cardinal OLED panels to Apple this year, but amid rapidly falling proviso forecasts, that is present highly improbable to occur. BOE is said to person resolved the issues by mid-November, by which clip it was excessively precocious and Apple's proviso plans had changed.

Samsung Display volition present seemingly instrumentality implicit BOE's planned measurement for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌. Samsung was antecedently expected to proviso astir 80 cardinal OLED panels for the iPhone 17 lineup. This fig is present projected to emergence to astir 90 cardinal units arsenic a effect of the reallocation.

Apple remains babelike connected Samsung Display and LG Display for high-specification OLED manufacturing arsenic it scales LTPO exertion crossed much of its devices.
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