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Rumor has it that this is not the first time. Apple is likely to use a thinner display on its future iPhone, so it is being added to more and more products. According to a new report from The Elec (via MacRumors), LG Display is making some changes to its production line and switching to flexible GEN-6 organic light-emitting diode panels to produce smaller displays. The company will need to add some new devices to produce touch integrated panels. It will also be displayed using LTPO backplane technology.

LG Display plans to upgrade its flexible Gen-6 OLED panel production facility for smaller displays at the E6 production line in Jeju, Gyeonggi Province. To that end, the company will add new devices to produce touch integrated panels in early 2020 and switch to LTPO backplane technology.

Since the E6 series is Apple's exclusive product, the new iPhone, which will be launched next year, will offer a touch screen, according to industry news on December 17th.

The use of touch integrated panels means that the display can be thinner. However, it is not known whether this means that Apple will generally switch to a thinner iPhone than the iPhone 11 series. It's worth noting that the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are actually a little thicker than the iPhone models that those phones replace, so switching to a lightweight model would be an interesting move.

The use of low temperature polycrystalline oxides has some advantages. LTPO display technology, in which the backplane is responsible for opening and closing individual pixels in the display. Compared with standard cryogenic polysilicon (LTPS) designs, this and the overall structure of display technology mean that power consumption can be reduced by more than 15%. Apple currently uses LTPS in the iPhone series.

Apple has been using LTPO display technology in Apple Watch for some time, so it makes sense for Apple to transfer this technology to the iPhone series.

At the same time, in order to switch to LTPO backplane technology, LG Display needs Oxide equipment and is likely to enter the Paju plant in the second half of 2020. It is said that the monthly output of this equipment is about 30,000 units.

LTPO is a low-power organic light-emitting diode display technology that Apple first used in Apple Watch Series4 in 2018. The LTPO OLED panel of this watch is mass-produced at LGD's E2 factory in Pagu. It will now be produced by the sixth generation of organic light-emitting diodes.

This is not the first time we've heard that Apple will use LTPO display technology in the iPhone in the future, so it's sure to start to look different later this year.

Hopefully that doesn't mean we'll get smaller batteries in the iPhone series in 2020.

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