
LG Electronics Actively Release 55 inch UHD OLED TV, Begins Intense Competition with UHD LCD
LG Electronics’ 55 inch UHD curved OLED TV, soon to be released, have been revealed on USA’s Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) in the 3rd week of April.

LG Display Reports Performance, Focus on Structure Differentiation Through OLED TV
On April 22, LG Display reported their first quarter of 2015 performance announcing their success in OLED TV market entrance with balanced results in mass production yield rate, timing, and management.

[Euroluce 2015] Kaneka Exhibits OLED Lighting Panel with 50 Thousand Hours of Lifetime
Marketing activities in Europe by Kaneka is attracting attention. In Euroluce 2015, Kaneka exhibited OLED lighting panel with 50K hrs of lifetime with 1.05mm thickness.

[Analyst Column] The Reason Samsung Must Undertake OLED TV and Technology Course Analysis
In 2014, as the revenue and business profit fluctuated greatly per quarter, Samsung Display carried out management evaluation with BCG. One of the conclusions is known to be Gen10 LCD investment together with large area OLED for TV investment.

[Euroluce 2015] Enter OLED Lighting Cheaper Than LED
An area has emerged where OLED lighting can exceed LED’s price competitiveness.
In LG Chem’s booth in Euroluce 2015 (April 14-19, 2015) a British company Mackwell’s OLED lighting applied emergency system was exhibited.

[Euroluce 2015] LG Chem, Business Acceleration through Lighting Solution
In Euroluce 2015 (April 14-19, 2015) being held in Milan, Italy, LG Chem started enthusiastic European lighting market promotion with their largest booth of the exhibitions they have participated so far.
By showing the solution for OLED lighting and not an exhibition centering on existing panel and luminaire, LG Chem began active customer creation by supplying OLED panel, module and OLED lighting solution.

White OLED Display Market to Grow Rapidly to 150 Million Units Production in 2020
Large size OLED TV production is one of the hot issues within the display market. Although OLED has long been a focus for the next generation display, the market share of OLED display is still low. According to UBI Research...

[Finetech Japan 2015] Mobile Display up to 700 ppi. How about OLED?
At Finetech Japan 2015 (April 6-8), vice president of LG Display, Yoon Sooyoung, forecast the display resolution would evolve to 700ppi UHD for differentiation in technology. Japan Display’s CBO Yoshiyuki Tsukizaki also disclosed that a person can perceive up to 700ppi and estimated that mobile display resolution would therefore develop up to 700ppi.

[Finetech Japan 2015] The Third Display Revolution, to be Accomplished by OLED?
Speaking in a keynote session in Finetech Japan 2015 which opened on April 8, LG Display’s vice president Yoon Sooyoung reported that “the first revolution in TV market was transformation to color from black and white, the second revolution was from CRT to flat panel display such as PDP and LCD, and the third revolution will be accomplished by OLED”.

A Place for OLED Unification
A place for OLED unification was held for Korea’s OLED industry…

What is the Next Killer OLED Display Application?
The interest in automotive display by OLED industry’s key leaders, Samsung Display and LG Display, is growing. During the 1st OLED KOREA Conference

Samsung Elec. and Apple Lead Flexible (Plastic) OLED Industry
2015 is forecast to be the year flexible (plastic) OLED actively enters the market. Galaxy S6, which was hugely popular in MWC 2015, is already to have received pre-order for 20 million units. Of these, approximately 50% is estimated to be for Galaxy S6 Edge.