Rumor: Apple taps Innolux to fill orders for 4.7" 'iPhone 6' displays

Taiwanese LCD manufacturer Innolux has beaten out rivals Sharp and Samsung in the race to supply 4.7-inch displays for Apple's next-generation iPhone, a Monday report said.

If true, Innolux would join LG Display and Japan Display Corporation as suppliers of 4.7-inch panels for the device, according to Taiwanese newspaper UDN. The report was first noticed by GforGames.

Innolux is thought to have benefitted from Apple's reluctance to expand its reliance on South Korean conglomerate Samsung. The two companies find themselves increasingly at odds — both in the marketplace and in the courtroom — even as Samsung supplies a number of critical parts for Apple, most notably as the fabricator of the A-series processors inside the iPhone and iPad.

Sharp, meanwhile, is believed to have been dismissed after quality issues arose during preliminary test runs. That would represent the second time Apple shunned Sharp this year, after the Japanese company was reportedly ousted from the iPad mini supply chain in March.

There was no word on who Apple would turn to for panels in its rumored larger, 5.5-inch "phablet" iPhone. That device is expected to be release late this fall, possibly months after its smaller sibling.

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MacPro 19840 comments · 18 Years

About 10 years ago

Rumor: Apple tabs Innolux to fill orders for 4.7" 'iPhone 6' displays Shouldn't that be 'Taps'?

SpamSandwich 32917 comments · 19 Years

[quote name="digitalclips" url="/t/179822/rumor-apple-tabs-innolux-to-fill-orders-for-4-7-iphone-6-displays#post_2536012"]Rumor: Apple tabs Innolux to fill orders for 4.7" 'iPhone 6' displays Shouldn't that be 'Taps'?[/quote] Yep. Ugh.

bobjohnson 154 comments · 10 Years

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Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Yep. Ugh.

Nope. Ugh.

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mark or identify with a projecting piece of material.

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radarthekat 3903 comments · 12 Years

The rumors are significantly thinner on the 5.5" displays. This could be related to a later release date (maybe Apple isn't yet in the production ramp up stage) or it could be that there is not 5.5" version. It's not only display production rumors that seem few and far between, but also there seem to be zero leaks of the phone shell or any other variants of the rumors we're hearing about the 4.7" version.

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