Samsung may soon supply more expensive iPhone parts

07/28/2020 Technology


In addition to the main provider of Screens from the iPhone 12 series. With the exception of the 6.1 ” 12 Max, Samsung also broke through Apple’s camera supply chain, Korean media reports The elec.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will supply the lenses for iPhone 12 cameras, more specifically 6P lenses, while next year it will supply 5P to 7P lenses for the iPhone 13 series. Famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has already said it will be an iPhone 14 model that will get periscope zoom lenses as soon as possible, and the Korean report confirms that Samsung will provide them, too.

An Apple iPhone 14 2022 with periscope zoom?

After acquiring the Israelis from Corephotonics, Apparently, Samsung also inherited superior folded optical zoom technology, with “ball motors instead of spring-coil motors,” whatever that means. The problem is, however, that both Apple and LG is being sued by Corephotonics for patent infringement on its telephoto zoom technology that first appeared in the iPhone 7 Plus.

However, in 2014, we investigated Corephotonics on its zoom technology for phones with two lenses, one wide and one narrow, configured at different levels, and we were impressed, as you can see in the following video.

Corephotonics complained that Apple’s chief negotiator even mocked the viability of its patents during its possible telephoto association partnerships and other zoom inventions, saying Apple is too big to be sued for such patents.

Apple has many patents of its own that describe dual-camera features in all shapes and versions, but the Israeli startup’s technology appears to be preceding those. Still, we don’t know what conditions Corephotonics had in place for the use of its camera technology, as we all know that in price negotiations bargaining can be unpleasant for all parties involved, and the lawsuit could be a case of grapes. sour for Israelis However, given Apple’s size, it might have been perfectly aware that it can develop the idea on its own, without having to pay for Corephotonics’ intellectual property.

Well, the lawsuit is still ongoing, and Samsung now owns the Corephotonics patents and technology, so Apple would apparently have to go with the Korean giant as a provider for the eventual periscope zoom on the iPhone 14, both for technology and for patent infringement. point of view. After all, Corephotonics has been working on “multi-aperture imaging technologies” for years, with the first patent filed in 2013.

In this way, in just a year or two, Samsung will supply the most expensive parts of an Apple iPhone, unless the price of components for OLED displays and periscope zoom systems drop dramatically by then. How do we know that periscope zoom lenses are expensive? Well, directly from Huawei’s own Richard Yu, who complained in an interview that “we spend a lot of money on that, we invest a lot. Spending on the [P40] the camera costs $ 100 [per phone], maybe even over $ 100. That’s too expensive to be honest. The cost of the material is too high.“

That’s also for the 5x folded optical periscope zoom, and we shudder to think how much 10x periscope in the P40 Pro + costs. Apple isn’t the first to launch into a new and untested technology, but is patiently waiting on the sidelines to assess consumer adoption, and for unit prices to drop before pulling the trigger and enforcing it en masse as well.
This late adoption occurred with OLED displays, as only this year Apple will port its entire 2020 line to OLED panel technology, but also fast and wireless charging, and periscope zoom may be the next tactic in the preservation strategy of the Apple iPhone profit margin.

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