Watch apple Taiwan Longtan R & D base, uncover the mystery Corps veil

In 2014, apple from crystal electric, MediaTek hand, bought the key technology from AUO hands, take 50 people OLED elite R & D team, also from NTU (National Taiwan University) and Qing (National Tsinghua University) have never been poaching talent, Taiwan factory senior manager, can not enter the Longtan factory, in order to beat Apple Samsung. In the exclusive technology base China Taiwan Longtan, mysterious Corps gathered Zhezhi called the world's strongest.

The Longtan Park is located in Taoyuan science, there is an appearance without any sign of the building, the address is ten Longtan District Dragon Garden Road No. 55.

Here is the technology center of apple in Chinese Taiwan's most mysterious -- this factory is located in the science park around the corner of Longtan, only one company, is on both sides of a large forest, where security measures by the United States FBI (FBI) former officials want to close to the factory, Longtan car, as long as the open near Longtan the factory, the monitoring range directly into the apple.

FBI former officials are responsible for security protection

When visiting the Longtan factory, the first impression was silence. At noon, there was no bus passing through the main road around the Longtan factory for 10 minutes. There is a guard post booth in front of the building. The photographer just raised his camera in the taxi for a few seconds and was immediately warned by the guard.

The only recognizable Apple identity is the apple logo hanging on the wall of the lobby. Here, more than 100 employees according to the plan of marshalling, each other is prohibited talking about work, in violation of the provisions, will face hundreds of millions of dollars in astronomical claims; standing in the Longtan factory gate observed here from time to time Apple employees and suppliers import, see outsiders are on high alert.

The staff here can only live, travel company designated by the hotel, security check room have bugged, because, if the employees to discuss dialogue of the new technology were rivals, or a sample of luggage missing, may let the secret mission apple failed. When the apple Longtan plant was completed, even former president Ma Ying-Jeou wanted to visit and was turned down.

Not far from the apple Longtan factory, Taiwan semiconductor packaging factory, AUO is the most advanced electric panel factory and crystal electric's canyuan photoelectric old factory, these companies are an important partner for apple to develop a new generation of display technology.

This year, apple bowed its head for the first time, allowing Samsung to become the sole supplier of OLED panels for Apple's iPhone 8 handset. But Apple's supply chain is coming out, and OLED may be a transitional technology. Apple's next generation of display technology known as micro light-emitting diode (Micro LED), the past 3 years, apple heavy charge Taiwan, Longtan factory is Apple's R & D test micro light-emitting diode's largest overseas base.

Gather state advisory LED Research Center (LEDinside) analysis, micro light-emitting diode business opportunities can reach $300 to $40 billion. The new technology makes OLED the transitional technology used by iPhone, and Apple's ultimate goal is to turn everyone's iPhone, Apple, Watch into Apple's new display technology.

In April this year, the South Korean media had noticed the key role of the apple Longtan plant.

In April 20th, the South Korean business daily warned that the yellow alert in the South Korean component industry was ringing! "Article" analysis, the apple Taoyuan Longtan factory R & D technology will enter mass production next year, will probably replace Samsung's most proud of OLED technology.

Research and development of micro light-emitting diodes largest overseas base, is expected to produce next year

Because if Apple CEO (CEO) Cook put the OLED panel in the iPhone mobile phone replaced, just the phone screen, Samsung may lose billions of NT orders a year.

Open a iPhone 7 mobile phone, the screen is one of the most expensive components, according to the analysis of the market research firm IHS, a 7 iPhone, TSMC do mobile phone processor as long as the price of $26.9, but a 4.7 inch LCD screen mobile phone, the cost price is as high as $39, installed in the mobile phone 32GB memory, the price is not to half of the screen! In other words, who mastered the iPhone screen orders, who mastered the apple supply chain in the biggest piece of cake.

But in 2010, HTC electric had planned to launch by OLED mobile phone, Samsung has been out of stock, only rely on Samsung mobile phone panel, is unable to bear the risk of apple.

However, South Korea is full of patented mines in OLED technology, and the technology for manufacturing equipment has long been mastered by all. It is difficult for apple to master OLED technology. On the contrary, Apple has long been in the micro light-emitting diode layout for many years, 1/3 of the world's Micro light-emitting diode related patents are in apple hands.

What is a micro led? The technique is like putting millions of LED lights smaller than a grain of sand into a cell phone screen. Control the color of each LED, you can make the phone screen to do more than 4K high quality, color is more beautiful than OLED.

"This technology has many advantages," LEDinsie research associate Chu Yu Chao said, half micro light emitting diode power consumption is only OLED, but the ultrahigh brightness, in the sun is also clearly visible; moreover, the weakness of OLED is afraid of the water, poor weather resistance, not suitable for use in outdoor, micro light emitting diode without this problem.

More importantly, the latest technology in South Korea, also can only make a soft flexible display screen, but the micro light emitting diode with soft substrate can be folded, can make the pocket monitor. An industry's observation, micro LED display technology will be the ultimate".

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