DIGITIMES: According to indus­try sources, of course. Apple is report­edly fur­ther eval­u­at­ing IGZO-based dis­plays for the iPhone, iPad mini, and iPad in 2013. It’s not just Sharp at its Gen. 8 Kameyama No. 2 line, which com­menced the pro­duc­tion of IGZO LCDs in March 2012 and mass pro­duc­tion a month later; AU Optronics (AUO) has its L5C line, too. Innolux may have also licensed IGZO from Sharp and man­u­fac­ture IGZO LCDs on its Gen. 3 and Gen. 5 lines. So, poten­tially there’s three IGZO LCD sup­pli­ers in 2013: Sharp, AUO, and Innolux. But there might be more. Back on July 20, 2011 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) licensed patents related to IGZO to Samsung Electronics, but doesn’t mean Samsung is ready to mass man­u­fac­ture IGZO LCDs. We will have to wait and see. But why IGZO? Imagine a retina iPad mini that’s thin­ner, lighter, and with a bat­tery life exceed­ing 12 hours. Now that’s the iPad mini I’d want.