Apple Reportedly Planning to Launch iMac With OLED Display

Apple is preparing to motorboat an iMac featuring an OLED sheet with higher brightness, according to ZDNet Korea.


Apple has seemingly requested that Samsung Display, LG Display, and different suppliers nutrient 24-inch OLED sheet samples suitable for a aboriginal ‌iMac‌ exemplary utilizing their mass-production facilities. This would beryllium the biggest ever OLED show offered connected an Apple device.

Specifically, Apple asked suppliers for 24-inch OLED panels with 600 nits of brightness and astir 218 pixels-per-inch (PPI).By comparison, the existent ‌iMac‌ features a 24-inch LCD show with 500 nits of brightness and 218 PPI.

Samsung Display is expected to respond first, readying to nutrient 220 PPI samples connected its large-format Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) accumulation lines and vessel them to Apple successful the 2nd fractional of 2026. This would beryllium a sizeable measurement up from the 160 PPI QD-OLED panels it presently mass-produces for monitors. SEMES announced earlier this period that it had shipped inkjet printing instrumentality to Samsung susceptible of supporting the higher pixel density.

LG Display's samples are expected to travel those of Samsung, and whitethorn not beryllium arsenic agleam owed to utilizing colour filters alternatively than a quantum dot colour conversion layer. Instead of utilizing its existing 4-stack W-OLED panels, the institution reportedly plans to vie utilizing a still-in-development 5-stack plan that adds a greenish furniture for amended brightness. LG Display is besides processing "eLEAP" technology, referred to internally arsenic "fLEAP," which eliminates the request for Fine Metal Masks (FMM), for a enactment of aboriginal Apple instrumentality displays, including the ‌iMac‌ and MacBook.

Apple purportedly wants to motorboat the OLED ‌iMac‌ successful 2029 oregon 2030. For now, the ‌iMac‌ is owed an upgrade to the M5 chip. Apple past refreshed the instrumentality with the M4 spot and a 12MP Center Stage camera successful October 2024.
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