To manufacture its Oled screens, Samsung Display assembles several layers and components, each manufactured by a specialized company. It is therefore enough to modify one of these elements to change the characteristics of the screen: improve the brightness, ease of manufacture or autonomy for example. This is how Samsung Display evolves its screens, giving them a generation name at each significant stage.
Oled M14 Samsung Display screen generation for the iPhone 18
For example, we learned last summer that the company could deploy the 13th generation of screens - named M13 - for the new Galaxy S24 smartphones, while the iPhone 15 uses the M12. According to the latest indiscretions collected by the Korean media The Elec, Samsung Display is already working on the M14 of the iPhone 16, but also on later generations which will greatly improve the autonomy of the screen, and therefore of the mobile.
Transmitter objective Phosphorescent blue OLED
In detail, Samsung Display is focusing on replacing the blue fluorescent material of Oled screens with a phosphorescent material, which is much more efficient in terms of energy consumption. Currently, the red and green screen materials have an internal luminous efficiency of 100%, while the blue displays only 25%. Replacing this element will increase this percentage and reduce energy consumption, resulting in greater autonomy.
This change should arrive in the second half of 2025, too late to be integrated into the 'iPhone 17, but in time for iPhone 18.
