Editing by Li Panpan

Sanan Optoelectronics(三安光电), a leading Chinese Mini LED manufacturer, recently passed Apple’s certification test and is expected to join its supply chain as soon as the second quarter. Current supplier Fucai(富采) from the Taiwan region plans to expand annual production by 50% in 2022, Chinese financial press CLS reported. 

With the increasing demand for Mini LEDs, Apple adds more suppliers to consolidate the mass production scale. Fucai is the first Mini LEDs supplier to Apple and Sanan Optoelectronics has followed.

Apple launched its MacBook Pro laptop with a Mini LED panel for the first time at its last autumn event. It is also the second product to introduce Mini LED panels in 2021 after the iPad Pro. Fucai is the leading supplier of its Mini LED chips.

Fucai said that the current progress of major customers’ purchases is within expectations. It plans to expand its Mini LED production capacity by 20% from the fourth quarter of 2021 to the first quarter this year. In 2022, the annual target expansion rate will reach 50%.

Based in Xiamen of southeastern China’s Fujian Province, Sanan Optoelectronics became Samsung’s primary Mini LED chips supplier first.

Sanan Optoelectronics said its Mini/Micro LEDs are widely used in display fields such as TV, tablet computers, notebook computers, and car screens, with shipments increasing month by month. In addition, its branches in Quanzhou Semiconductor and Hubei focusing on Mini/Micro display chips have also been put into operation. 

The company will give full play to its advantages in large-scale Mini LED chip production and promote to more top international devices brands, Sanan Optoelectronics said. 

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