Apple iPad Pro’s Tandem OLED display is coming to laptops, thanks to LG

One of the biggest upgrades with the new iPad Pro variants Apple announced earlier this year was undoubtably the new M4 chip powering the tablets. However, the next most impressive spec was the new Tandem OLED display panel, which Apple used to offer better brightness levels on the new Pro iPads.

Interestingly, the display tech is not one of Apple’s own, but actually developed by LG, a company that’s known for its display tech. Now, LG has announced that the new Tandem OLED technology will come to several other laptops across manufacturers.

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The panel is now officially in mass production, and will be offered in a 13-inch 2,880 x 1,800 size. It will also have 100 per cent DCI-P3 coverage, but will offer only 60Hz refresh rate, for now.

What is Tandem OLED?

Tandem OLED is a design for OLED display screens developed by LG, which stacks two OLED panels on top of each other to emit light in sequence. The tech can offer better brightness levels and longer lasting screens among other perks.

In a Tandem OLED panel, two layers of light emitting pixels can now emit 50 per cent light to offer a collective 100 per cent output, reducing the risks of screen burn in, but also helping with power consumption. However, when you want more brightness, both layers of pixels can effectively throw max brightness to significantly improve the aggregate brightness.

The tech was seen on the new M4 iPad Pro models, which were previously powered by mini-LED and LCD screens, offering much better colours, contrast levels and more brightness (1,600nits of peak brightness).

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On upcoming laptops, LG claims that the new Tandem OLED panels will also be 40 per cent thinner and 28 per cent lighter compared to existing OLED laptop laptops, meaning the tech could pave the way for thinner thin-and-light laptops as well as 2-in-1 laptops.

Ironically, this now means that Apple may be the only laptop-maker left out of the OLED party, since none of the MacBooks currently offer OLED screens. Hopefully, that will change with the next generation of MacBook laptops.