The iPhone X should bring very big to Samsung in 2018

Apple has entrusted the manufacture of screens for iPhone X to Samsung Display. A contract that should bring billions of dollars to Samsung in 2018.

Apple marked the end of 2017 with the launch of the iPhone X , the first iPhone to use a new design since the iPhone 6 released in 2014. The main change comes from the use of an OLED screen board on board manufactured by Samsung Display.


The other subcontractors targeted by Apple such as LG or Sharp obviously could not meet the criteria of the Apple brand, so that Samsung obtained the entire market. The iPhone X is certainly not a commercial failure, Samsung should get a nice jackpot in 2018, according to analysts.

$ 22 billion in revenue in 2018

According to The Investor , relayed by our colleagues SamMobile , Samsung is expected to provide Apple between 180 and 200 million OLED screens for the iPhone X in 2018. With a price of $ 110 per screen with the glass protection and the Touch layer, Samsung would pocket 19.8 to 22 billion dollars. This result would be in addition to the 50 million screens already sold to Apple in 2017 for the end of the year, which would bring $ 5.5 billion to the giant.

An irrattrapable advance?

To achieve such results, Samsung would have managed to push the production yield to almost 90%, while it was only 60% earlier in the year. This yield would enable Samsung to produce about 224 million 6-inch displays. According to an industry observer, achieving such a performance is impressive given Apple's quality requirements. So we wonder if the competitors of Samsung Display will really reach this level in the coming years.

Anyway, Samsung Display can therefore count on sales of Samsung Galaxy smartphones, but also on sales of the iPhone, to bring him regular income.