Although Samsung and Apple are rivals in the mobile phone market, but in the meantime, Apple actually sourcing a lot of parts from Samsung to iPhone X, for example, from the OLED panel to NAND flash and DRAM are all from Samsung.
However, Apple seems to intend to reduce the degree of dependence on Samsung, Korean media refers to Apple is LG to discuss the purchase of OLED panels.If eventually reached an agreement, LG will begin in June next year to provide 60 million OLED Apple.
This move will help Apple to boost iPhone production capacity in 2018, after all, it has been reported recently that in 2018, Apple will launch up to 3 new iPhone Xs, of which two will follow the OLED screen.
LG has always wanted to challenge Samsung's dominance of the OLED panel market with plans to invest $ 4.5 billion in Guangzhou, China, to build an OLED panel plant that has recently won approval from the Korean government.
Of course, it is not easy to catch up with Samsung because they have a 97% share of the global mobile device OLED panel market, and Samsung is aggressively taking steps to solidify its position.
