The new iPad Pro M4 was the first, but as it was easy to imagine the technology Tandem OLED of LG and Samsung will not remain exclusive to Apple for long. A report from Korea, in fact, confirmed that LG Display has started producing 100,000 Tandem OLED panels for Dell. The displays, made on the same E6 production line used for iPad Pro screens located in the Paju plant in South Korea, will be used for the new Dell XPS 13-inch laptop.
Dell will thus have the first laptop with this new OLED technology, which promises greater longevity as well as a better ratio between brightness and efficiency. According to the American company, these are the complete specifications of the display:
- Dimensions: 13.4 inches
- Technology: AMOLED
- Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (3K+)
- Refresh rate: 60 Hz
- Brightness: 400 nits
The brightness data is curious, given that 400 nits are much lower than the 1,000 nits for SDR content and 1,600 nits for HDR content of the new iPad Pro. It will be interesting to check the data better once the computer arrives on the market.
Tandem OLED technology
The report confirms an indiscretion from a few days ago by Tom Warren, who had anticipated how the new Dells with ARM processors would have the same Tandem OLED panels as Apple.
As we have already had the opportunity to explain when talking about how the 13-inch iPad Pro was a repairability nightmare, the functioning of the Tandem OLED panel, also known as Ultra Retina at Apple, is not exactly that shown by the Cupertino company. The image of two OLED panels working on top of each other is indeed technically incorrect. Rather, the technology seems more similar to that of an old Kodak patent from 2005: essentially the traditional OLED stack has been modified to increase the number of electroluminescence layers in the vertical stack of each diode.
This increases the amount of light and color each diode can transmit, and yes, the result is similar to having two OLEDs stacked on top of each other, but it’s still a single OLED on the board, not an entire stacked OLED panel on another.
In any case, the Dell laptop will probably only be the first in a long line of products equipped with this technology. In your opinion, what will be the next devices to announce the adoption of Tandem OLED panels? Tell us yours in the comments below.
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