Apple has reportedly killed in-house development efforts for of next-gen microLED panels that would've offered a huge quality leap for the Apple Watch.
It seems Apple’s highly anticipated display upgrades, especially for the Apple Watch, will have to wait a few more years. According to Bloomberg, Apple has shuttered in-house efforts to design and develop microLED panels that would have appeared on its smartwatches — and eventually more products down the road.
Recommended Videos The seven-year-long project would have seen Apple have a deeper impact on display development, allowing the company to play a bigger role in designing and customizing microLED panels to its specific quality requirements. Apple will now have to rely on partners like LG to make those display units, and there’s now a delay caveat attached to the microLED deployment efforts.
Related Apple reportedly planned to put microLED panels on its smartwatches as early as 2020 but kept pushing those dates. According to Bloomberg, the most recent goal post was “2025 and beyond.” With microLED development efforts shuttered at Apple, the company will now rely on the innovation and production-readiness of suppliers to move ahead.
However, the apparent delay for microLED panels on the Apple Watch isn’t all doom and gloom for Apple Watch enthusiasts. “It was going to be a high-end Smart Watch since the microLED panel would cost more than a regular panel, so I don’t think it affects the average buyer,” Ross Young, chief of Display Supply Chain Consultants, tells Digital Trends about the project.
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