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.
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.
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.
Foldable smart phone, can it absorb tablet PC market?
"If foldable Smartphone is launched and commercialized in earnest, the high-priced tablet PC market is likely to disappear.” Choong-hoon Yi, president of UBI Research, said in ‘the Latest OLED Technology Trends
Seminar’ held at COEX in Seoul on the 26th April, 2018.
Seminar’ held at COEX in Seoul on the 26th April, 2018.
In order to accelerate the mass production of solution processed OLED?
At the latest OLED technology trends seminar organized by UBI Research in Seoul COEX on April 26th, professor Seo presented about the status of solution processed OLED for large-area TV production.
Micro LED TV, is the price competitive compared to OLED TV?
"It needs to consider how to resolve the price competitiveness compared to other displays, such as OLED, before Micro LED is to be applied to the big screen TVs of 60 inches and 70 inches in future."
Samsung Electronics’ Display Business Operating Profit in 1Q 2018 slowed down to KRW 410 billion
Samsung Electronics reported sales of KRW 60.56 trillion and operating profit of KRW 15.64 trillion in the first quarter of 2018 at the conference held on April 26. Its display division generated sales of KRW7.54 trillion with the operating profit of KRW410 billion. Display sales QoQ and YoY are -32.6% and 3.4%, respectively, and operating profit QoQ and YoY are -70.9% and -68.5%, respectively. OLED sales accounted for 70% of its total display sales.
Can BLUE OLED be used for OLED TV?
Samsung Display selected blue OLED + QDCF (blue OLED) as next generation display technology following LCD TV, and started the necessary development. Blue OLED is a technology, in which blue light emitted from blue OLED passes through a quantum dot color filter to represent red and green colors (b). The WRGB OLED used in OLED TV is a method in which white light passes through a color filter and implements RGB colors (a).
Following OLED, notch design to LCD becomes a marketing trend in 2018?
At the 6th China Information Technology Expo (CITE 2018) held in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China from April 8 to 11, 2018, a number of panel makers and set makers exhibited notch-designed display panels and smart phones.
LG Display 88-inch 8K OLED TV was released to the public through CITE held in Shenzhen, China.
CITE, an electronics trade show held in China on April 10, 2018, had a relatively lukewarm atmosphere with significantly fewer visitors than last year. It seems to have been influenced by the lack of special IT issues, compared to last year when it was crowded with the attention of many general visitors.
Changes in OLED panel market for smartphones
According to the '2018 1Q AMOLED Display Market Track' published by UBI Research, OLED panel shipments for smartphones are projected to grow at an annual average growth rate of 15.8%, from 450 million units in 2018 to 850 million units by 2022. This is a 9.6% decline from the CAGR 25.4% expected in the fourth quarter of 2017.
LG Display, showing next generation OLED technology at ‘CITE 2018’
LG Display is showing OLEDs applied to various applications in the 'China Information Technology Expo 2018' held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China from April 9 to 11, 2018.
OLED smartphones of the notch design type, will become trends in 2018?
Since Apple first unveiled its OLED smartphone in the notch design type on iPhone X, lots of smartphone makers are to release OLED smartphones in succession. Attention is focused whether notch-type OLED smartphones will be become trends in the smartphone market in 2018.
