12.9-inch Mini-LED Apple iPad Pro will be available in early 2021, MacBook in the second half of the year

According to DigiTimes, Apple will launch a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with a mini LED backlit screen in early 2021, and a mini LED backlit MacBook in the second half of next year.

According to reports, Epistar will provide more than 10,000 mini LEDs used in iPad Pro tablets . At the same time, Apple is expected to recruit OSRAM Optoelectronics as another mini LED supplier for the new “high-end” MacBook, which is consistent with the supplier information cited by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

According to industry sources, Osram Opto Semiconductors is expected to supply mini LEDs for high-end MacBook backlights in the second half of 2021, becoming Apple’s second supplier of such products after Taiwan Epistar.

According to sources, Apple is expected to launch a 12.9-inch mini LED-backlit iPad Pro in early 2021. Each tablet computer will use more than 10,000 mini LEDs, exclusively supplied by Epistar. The source pointed out that Epistar plans to start producing mini LEDs in the third quarter of 2020 by transforming blue LED chip manufacturing equipment.

Guo Mingchi had previously predicted that the 12.9-inch high-end iPad Pro is likely to be Apple’s first mini-LED product. Guo Mingchi believes that the mini-LED display of the iPad Pro will start production in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it may not be launched until next year.

Guo Mingchi once said that the mini-LED version of the 16-inch MacBook Pro is under development and may be released at the end of 2020, and Apple is also developing a mini-LED 14.1-inch MacBook Pro, but he did not provide the latter’s listing information. According to data from the Taiwanese research company TrendForce, Apple suppliers will not start competing to win manufacturing orders for new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models equipped with mini-LED displays until the first quarter of 2021.

Naija Tech News has learned that Ming-Chi Kuo has previously stated that the mini-LED display will achieve a thinner and lighter product design, while providing many of the same advantages of the OLED display used on the latest iPhone. The number of individual LEDs used in Mini-LED displays is about 1,000 to 10,000. Compared with traditional LED displays, it can provide deeper and darker blacks, brighter brightness, richer colors and better contrast. However, the cost of this technology will temporarily increase substantially.