The second half of 2018 just started, Chinese OLED panel makers are chasing Korea. Where are they?
The display industry has been in a state of confusion by the recent leaking of OLED display panel production technology into China.
As of 2018, five companies (BOE, Everdisplay, Tianma, Truly, and Visionox) have OLED production lines in China, among which only BOE has a line that can produce OLED displays (“Plastic OLED”) using plastic substrates, applied to the premium smart phones such as Samsung Galaxy and Apple’s iPhone. Other panel makers are building lines to produce plastic OLED displays targeting mass production this year and next year.
LCD Smartphone is 4K era, what about OLED Smartphone?
In the past MWC 2017, Sony unveiled the world’s first Smartphone with 4K LCD and it is scheduled to release the Xperia XZ2 Premium with 4K LCD on July 4. Attention is growing whether 4K resolution market is to be launched in earnest in smartphones.
Vivo released OLED smart phone with more than 90% display area.
Vivo, a Chinese Smartphone maker, announced on June 12 that it will launch a new full-screen OLED Smartphone ‘NEX’ as its flagship line.
In Premium TV market, OLED portion is growing.
Following Bang & Olufsen and SONY, Philips’ OLED TV was launched in Korea on June 11, 2018.
Philips’ OLED TV, applied with LG Display’s OLED panel, is available in two models; 55 – inch and 65 – inch. It features a quad – core CPU, HDR 10, Dolby Vision and DTS surround.
Market for OLED materials and components is forecast to grow to US$37 billion in 2022.
In the 2018 OLED material and component report and Market Track published by UBI Research, the entire market for OLED materials and components market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 29% by 2022, forming a market of US$ 37 billion in 2022.
Xiaomi re-adopts OLED in two years.
After two years of the launch of Redmi Pro and Mi Note2 in 2016, Xiaomi adopted OLED again.
On May 31, Xiaomi unveiled its flagship smartphones such as Mi8, Mi8 Explorer Edition, Mi8 SE, and its smart watch Mi band3, to mark the eighth anniversary of its founding.
[SID 2018] OLEDON, presented about X-mixing plane source deposition technology for AMOLED efficiency enhancement.
In SID 2018, Hwang Chang-Hoon, CEO of OLEDON, announced a new plane source FMM deposition technology that can produce ultra-high resolution AMOLED of 2,250 ppi. According to the announcement, the linear source currently applied to mass production has a problem of causing superimposition of fine adjacent patterns in a high resolution implementation due to a shadow distance of 3 μm. But Hwang said he succeeded in reducing the shadow distance of the patterns by 0.18 um using plane source, which is the smallest shadow distance ever introduced.
Sony, announced the commercialization of 0.5-inch micro OLED with UXGA resolution
Sony announced the upcoming release of the ‘ECX339A’, a 0.5-inch OLED micro-display with UXGA resolution. According to Sony, it has achieved the world’s smallest pixel pitch of 6.3 μm, enabling a resolution 1.6 times higher than its predecessor, “ECX337A “(0.5-inch QVGA (1280 × 960)).
[SID2018] Samsung display’s OLED technology, one step closer to full screen
At the SID2018 exhibition in Los Angeles, a new concept OLED with no front speakers on the Smartphone was introduced.
Samsung Display’s new “Sound on display” removes the speaker at the top of the smart phone.
TCL announced “Establishing large-area OLED panel production plant”, is solution processed RGB OLED mass production accelerated?
China TCL will invest RMB 42.8 billion (US$ 6.71 billion) in Shenzhen to establish a factory for large-area OLED panel production. According to South China Morning Post, TCL recently announced that it will produce 90,000 units on the basis of 70-inch panel in the new production line of Gen 11 (3370 mm x 2940 mm) with the goal of mass production in March 2021 in the data submitted to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The main products are to be known as 65-inch and 75-inch OLED panels, and 65-inch, 70-inch and 75-inch display panels with 8K resolution.
Foldable OLED device is nearing commercialization. What are the technical challenges to be solved?
Attentions are growing for the foldable smartphone since it can provide a wider screen and higher resolution than the display of conventional smartphones, while maintaining the portability of the smartphone. The foldable smartphone is a smartphone when folded, and it becomes a tablet PC when it is unfolded. Following Samsung Electronics, Huawei is also aiming to launch a smartphone with a foldable display this year.
Samsung Electronics, is increasing full screen rigid OLED adoption.
Samsung Electronics is expected to launch next-generation smartphones with full-screen rigid OLEDs, next to the popular Galaxy A8 (2018) series. Accordingly, attention is focused whether the sluggish rigid OLED market will revive.
LG OLED TV was selected as the best TV for 3 consecutive years.
At the best 2018 TV released recently by Consumer Reports, US consumer magazine, LG Electronics’ 65-inch OLED TV ‘OLED65C8PUA’ was selected as the best product among all the products.
OLEDWorks announces ‘OLEDSurface Light Module’ which integrates OLED light and driver.
OLEDWorks, specialized in OLED lighting, recently announced the launch of ‘OLEDSurface Light Module’, which integrates OLED lighting, driver and frame.
BLUE OLED, is rapidly emerging as a competitor of WRGB OLED
In the premium TV market, the share of OLED TVs is steadily increasing, and the price gap with LCD is gradually decreasing. As a result, LCD TV (QD-LCD TV) companies using quantum dot technology are sluggish in the premium TV market.