Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones

Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by londons_explore on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:15AM (#35989144)

Because the display can only have one row of pixels on at once.

If you have a display 1000 pixels tall, then the brightest LED's are on for 1/1000th of the time.

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Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by addisonl on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:27AM (#35989343)

Seems like a limitation that will be solved as time goes on.

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Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by londons_explore on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:30AM (#35989411)

Unless you have a diode, capacitor and MOSFET at every pixel, you can't....

And manufacturing limitations mean you can't easily have those per-pixel while still keeping the whole thing cheap.

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Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by Someone on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:12PM (#35990138)

> manufacturing limitations mean you can't easily have those per-pixel while still keeping the whole thing cheap

“can’t easily” seems to imply it is possible. If that’s true, Apple, with its deep pockets, should be able to do it.

Also, I don’t think Apple will be bothered much with “keeping the whole thing cheap”. They will want to prevent it from getting expensive, but likely will accept intermediate costs if the result is much better.

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Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by saltcured on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:28PM (#35991320)

Couldn't they break the screen into tiles/chunks that have separate addressing? I.e. use 2 or 4 parallel drivers and get 2x or 4x duration per line.

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Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones by akvadrako on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:46PM (#35991548)

You can have more drivers if you want, say 10 so they're on 1/100th of the time.

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