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OLED Displays Coming To All 5G Model Apple iPhones In 2020: Report - Benzinga
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus is its most powerful mobile chip - Circuit Breaker
Samsung Galaxy Note 10, revisited 10 months later - Android Central

OLED Displays Coming To All 5G Model Apple iPhones In 2020: Report - Benzinga

Posted: 08 Jul 2020 05:01 AM PDT

All of Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) 5G smartphones will be equipped with OLED screens in 2020, which is likely to spur competition among display panel suppliers.

What Happened: The Cupertino-based smartphone maker is likely to introduce four 5G models of its iPhones in 2020. All these devices will have organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, according to Nikkei Asian Review.

Apple first made use of OLED displays in its 2017 model iPhone X and currently has those displays in iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max models. The company's bestselling device — the iPhone 11 — uses LCD displays.

A source told the Review that Apple's new iPhones will be equipped with flexible OLED displays but the company was "unable to integrate the Face ID module into the display," and therefore the newer models will still have a notch or a "fringe."

Why It Matters: According to the Review, OLED displays can allow a manufacturer to make foldable phones and are in use by manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (OTC: SSNLF), Huawei, Oppo and Vivo.

Japan Display Inc (OTC: JNNDF), which makes 60% of its revenue from selling displays to Apple, will suffer as it lags behind in OLED development.

LG Display Co Ltd (NYSE: LPL), an Apple supplier, has started to produce OLED displays in smaller numbers.

Samsung is expected to be the leader in supplying OLED displays and is likely to corner 74% of the market in 2020.

On Tuesday, Samsung announced earnings guidance beating analyst expectations with operating profits rising 23% in the second quarter to $6.8 billion. The increased revenues were spurred partly by one-time gains made by the electronic giant's display unit, which supplies to Apple.

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus is its most powerful mobile chip - Circuit Breaker

Posted: 08 Jul 2020 06:36 AM PDT

Qualcomm has announced a refreshed version of its flagship Snapdragon 865 processor called the Snapdragon 865 Plus, which is designed to boost performance by almost 10 percent for gaming and AI applications.

There are three key improvements of the Snapdragon 865 Plus from the stock standard 865:

The Kryo 585 CPU has had its clock speed boosted up to a maximum of 3.1GHz, which is 10 percent higher than the standard 865
The Adreno 650 GPU offers 10 percent faster graphics rendering
Newly added compatibility for Qualcomm's FastConnect 6900 connectivity suite, which the company says supports Wi-Fi speeds up to 3.6Gbps

It's a similar refresh to last year's Snapdragon 855 Plus model, which offered improvements to CPU and GPU performance for gaming compared to the regular 855. It also means that Qualcomm isn't using the midyear refresh to add the most anticipated upgrade to the Snapdragon 865: integrating the Snapdragon X55 modem into the main chipset instead of requiring a separate component within the phone (which takes up more space and can impact battery life). Unfortunately, it seems like that improvement will have to wait for Qualcomm's 2021 flagship, at the earliest.

For the most part, the Snapdragon 855 Plus tended to pop up in gaming-focused Android phones, like the Asus ROG Phone II, the Nubia Red Magic 3, and the Black Shark 2 Pro, although it also was in more mainstream devices like the OnePlus 7T Pro, too. So far, it looks like the Snapdragon 865 Plus will continue that gaming emphasis, with Asus announcing that its upcoming ROG Phone III will feature the new chip, while Lenovo says that it'll appear in new Legion-branded devices later this year.

Qualcomm says that the first Snapdragon 865 Plus phones will be officially announced starting in Q3, so don't expect to see it popping up in upcoming flagships like the Galaxy Note 20 just yet.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10, revisited 10 months later - Android Central

Posted: 08 Jul 2020 05:30 AM PDT

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