Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Launch Moves Closer With Panel Production

Development of Apple's rumored OLED MacBook Pro took different guardant measurement this period erstwhile the next-generation accumulation enactment liable for manufacturing its displays commenced operation.


Samsung Display is expected to marque the panels for Apple's MacBook Pro, and has invested heavy successful an 8.6-generation OLED accumulation enactment located astatine its Asan field successful South Korea.

An 8.6G fab uses overmuch larger solid substrates than the OLED lines utilized for smartphones, which allows aggregate laptop-sized panels to beryllium chopped from a azygous sheet. This improves yields and lowers costs, which is conscionable what Apple needs if OLED is to regenerate mini-LED successful the MacBook Pro.

The enactment is designed astir rigid OLED panels with oxide TFT backplanes and precocious tandem OLED structures. These are amended suited to laptops, and connection higher brightness, improved powerfulness efficiency, and longer lifespan compared with accepted single-stack OLED panels.

According to the relationship yeux1122 connected the Naver blog, Samsung has present begun producing panels from the line, suggesting Apple and different customers person completed qualification and reliability testing.

Apple's archetypal OLED MacBook Pro volition besides diagnostic a touchscreen display, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The assertion has been corroborated by Bloomberg newsman Mark Gurman, who besides said the laptops volition person "thinner and lighter frames." Apple is seemingly focusing connected delivering the thinnest imaginable instrumentality without compromising connected artillery beingness oregon large caller features.

The redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are besides expected to person a hole-punch camera astatine the apical of the display, and it could perchance beryllium housed successful a pill-shaped cutout akin to the iPhone's Dynamic Island, alternatively than the notch MacBook Pro owners are accustomed to.

Gurman says the machines volition beryllium powered by M6 chips and are being readied for a late 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027 launch, pursuing the expected instauration of 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips successful the adjacent period oregon so.

• Apple Is Expected to Launch These Four MacBooks successful 2026

It would beryllium antithetic for Apple to present 2 ‌MacBook Pro‌ refreshes successful the aforesaid year, but determination is precedent for it: Apple updated the MacBook Pro lineup doubly successful 2023, archetypal with M2 Pro/M2 Max chips successful January and past with M3/M3 Pro/M3 Max chips successful precocious October.
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