Apple Joins TSMC to Develop OLED Driver ICs
2023-03-16

The latest news pointed out that Apple, after its own research and development of 5G chips, and began to design OLED driver IC, is expected to be in the second or third quarter of 2024, 28 nanometer mass production from Taiwan Semiconductor; This news will undoubtedly send shock bombs to existing supply chain manufacturers.

Driver IC is an important chip used for display equipment. It integrates components such as resistor, regulator, comparator and power transistor to control key controls such as luminous linearity, power and electromagnetic compatibility of the display panel, so as to ensure the uniformity and stability of the display picture.

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In order to strengthen the complete chip battle force, Apple switched to self-developed ARM architecture from mobile phones such as iPhone, iPad and Mac. After nearly two years of development, in 2022, Apple led Arm to continuously dominate the market. According to semiconductor supply chain sources, Apple and Taiwan Semiconductor's OLED driver IC R&D project, code-named Rosella and Lassen, will be ready to prototype by the end of this year.


Apple currently uses Samsung SLI's OLED driver IC, which is an important customer of UMC's 28 nm process. In addition, the market has also recently reported that the domestic driver IC factory NOVATEK is expected to enter Apple's OLED driver IC supply chain in 2024. Therefore, if Apple successfully develops OLED driver IC and successfully applies it to its own products, it will reduce external procurement in the future, and even erode this big pie, which may cause a large ripple on the existing market.

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