LG Display has made the mistake of claiming Apple has announced a new device, when it hasn’t. A post on the LG Display newsroom explaining the concept of 8K-resolution screens oddly mentions a non-existent announcement from Apple that it would be releasing the “iMac 8K” later this year, a product that Apple has yet to give any official confirmation about, and has yet to surface in rumors.
Apple’s current highest-resolution display, part of the 27-inch Retina 5K iMac, was announced in October last year, offering 67 percent more pixels than a 4K television with its resolution of 5120×2880. The relatively short time after the launch of the 5K iMac makes an 8K iMac announcement unlikely to be true, though LG Display does provide Apple with display panels for its products, including both iMacs and iPhones, giving it some level of plausibility.
Another indicator that an 8K iMac is unlikely to launch soon lies within the LG Display blog post itself. The manufacturer did demonstrate a 7680×4320-resolution panel at CES in January, but one measuring a hefty 98 inches diagonally. LG has created a 55-inch IPS panel at the same resolution with 500 nits of brightness using M+ panel technology, effectively adding an extra white subpixel to the RGB structure, though this too is a display with roughly four times the surface area of the existing 5K iMac’s screen, with its physical size being a non-starter.
