Apple will use OLED panels from Chinese language show provider BOE in its upcoming fourth-generation iPhone SE smartphone fashions, the media reported. As a result of manufacturing issues, BOE missed the preliminary variety of OLED panels meant for this yr’s iPhone 15 collection, with Samsung and LG claiming nearly all of orders, studies MacRumors.

Now it’s seemingly attempting to make up for it by concentrating on making OLED panels for the budget-friendly iPhone SE 4. Round 20 million OLED screens are anticipated for use within the iPhone SE 4 subsequent yr.

Final month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo mentioned that the tech large has restarted improvement of the iPhone SE 4 smartphone, which can function a 6.1-inch OLED show and an in-house 5G baseband chip. Kuo additionally talked about that the mass manufacturing of the iPhone SE 4 will go “easily” within the first half of subsequent yr.

Apple had already launched a 5G iPhone SE the final time, however the subsequent one is probably going to make use of the corporate’s in-house G baseband chip. This chip is reportedly constructed utilizing a 4nm course of and helps solely sub-6GHz. This might be the primary iPhone mannequin to make use of that chip, which has been in improvement for years, and Apple deciding to apply it to an entry-level iPhone would imply a dry run for the chip earlier than it makes its technique to flagship iPhones.

Apple’s premium-range iPhone fashions nonetheless use Qualcomm’s modem chips for 5G. Earlier studies have instructed Apple would start utilizing its personal 5G modems within the coming years, however resulting from some complexity, Apple has avoided changing the Qualcomm modems with the in-house ones. Even when what Kuo has mentioned holds any water, it nonetheless doesn’t supply readability as as to if or not the iPhone fashions in 2024 would include Apple’s personal 5G modems. That’s as a result of the modems don’t presently assist mmWave and satellite tv for pc communications — two of essentially the most superior options of the iPhone.