Looks like the love between Samsung and Apple is not dead yet!
Today iFixIt reports that Apple has removed the LG display drivers from the iPad 2 and replaced them with Samsung drivers.
LG Pre-March 2011 iPad/iPad 2 Display Driver
What this means is that LG display drivers, a driver that dates back to the iPad 1, were used in the iPad 2 devices manufactured up to March 2011. iPad 2 units manufactured after March 2011 use Samsung.
Chipworks’ latest batch of iPad 2s, however, seem to be using a new Wise-View chip. Little to no information can be found about the chip at this time, except that it appears to be a technology developed by Samsung.
Samsung Post-March 2011 iPad/iPad 2 Display Driver
With little information about the Samsung chip, and no details of why Apple has made the swap, iFixIt speculates that Apple could be readying future iPad’s for a higher resolution display. Or maybe Apple simply decided to switch suppliers.
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