This Might Be Apple Inc.'s Second Source for OLED Displays

This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) adopted a new type of display technology for the iPhone X called organic light-emitting diode, or OLED. OLED displays have some significant advantages over traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs), such as much better contrast ratios and substantially faster pixel response times.

One big disadvantage to using such displays, though, is that only Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) can build panels good enough to meet Apple's stringent quality and performance requirements. This means that Apple has far less negotiating power when trying to procure OLED displays than it does when it's trying to sign supply agreements for LCDs.

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