Market ⋆ OLED

OLED TV, fiercely chasing SUHD TV Price

January 23, 2017

OLED TV price is being fallen continuously, and is fiercely chasing SUHD TV price. In Amazon (www.amazon.com), the price of 65inch 4k UHD OLED TV (OLED65B6), LG Electronic model of March 2016, was US$ 3,147 based on December 2016, and US$ 1,600 appeared to be dropped compared to US$ 4,747, price of July 2016. The price of 55inch 4k UHD OLED TV (OLED5B6) was US$ 2,097, and US$ 800 was fallen compared to US$ 2,897, the price of July 2016.

Expect to hit 1 trillion won in OLED emitting material market for 2017

January 20, 2017

The OLED emitting material market grew by 15%, about US$ 650 million versus 2015 according to “OLED emitting material Report-2nd data spread sheet” of Ubi research and it expects to achieve about US$ 980 million that over 1 trillion won in terms of Korean currency in 2017.

AMOLED panel for smart phones, just around the corner of 100million-unit shipment in a quarter

November 29, 2016

According to UBI Research, the shipment amount of AMOLED panel for smart phones in the 3rd quarter of 2016 was announced to be counted as 96million units

Solution Process OLED TV is prospected to be launched on the market in 2019, targeting the Mid-end TV Market

November 15, 2016

According to “Market Entry Analysis for Solution Process OLED -The Possibilities and Opportunities” issued on November 14 by Ubiresearch, OLED TV, produced in solution process method, is prospected to be launched on the market in 2019.

Who Will Get The First Full-Screen Display Smartphone Title, Samsung Or Apple?

November 11, 2016

Full-screen display smartphone is expected to be launched soon. According to the recent report ‘Key issue and Market Analysis for Foldable OLED’ by UBI RESEARCH, a market survey company, left-right bezel-less flexible OLED dominate the smartphone market, and later full-screen display with minimized or without both left-right and up-down bezel will appear in 2017, thereby leading the future market.

BOE’s Decision to Invest 46.5 Billion Yuan in Flexible OLED Line

November 1, 2016

According to a radio and TV source of Mianyang in Sìchuan Province, BOE has decided to invest 46.5 billion yuan(about 7.8 trillion KRW) in Gen6 flexible AMOLED production line.

LG OLED TV Dominates the North American Premium Market, Overtaking LCD

November 1, 2016

At the 2016 IMID Business Forum held at COEX in Samseong-dong on October 26, 2016 LG Display managing director Kim Gwang-jin announced that the share of OLED TV overtook that of LCD in the North American premium market, and they will put more focus on the premium market.

Samsung Display, the market will move to Full Screen next to Edge

October 31, 2016

At 2016 IMID Business Forum having been held in Samsung-dong KOEX on October 26th, Senior Park Won-sang of Samsung Display expected that full screen market would lead next to Smart phone of edge designs.

Samsung Electronics, Record operating profit of 1 trillion 20 billion won in Display business

October 31, 2016

Samsung Electronics lighted up that they recorded 7 trillion 60 billion won in sales and 1 trillion 20 billion won of operating profit in display business through 3rd quarter performance call having been progressed on 27th.

LG Electronics, OLED TV volume of sales 2 times in the 3rd quarter

October 31, 2016

LG Electronics revealed that OLED TV volume of sales was enlarged two times than last year through the conference on the third quarter performance having been progressed on the 27th, and currently OLED TV occupied over 10% among total TV sales. Also they expect that volume of the fourth quarter will be increased two times vs. the third quarter.

LG Display, OLED Investment Ratio 50% this year → Next year 70%

October 31, 2016

During the 3Q performance conference call on 26th, LG Display mentioned that their investment ratio in OLED was 50% this year, and plans to increase its ratio to at least 70% next year.

Next to Bezel-less is full-screen, Prospect of 60% market share of full-screen OLED panel in 2020.

October 12, 2016

According to a recent study “Key Issue and The Market Analysis for Foldable OLED” from UBI research, it is expected that bezel-less type of flexible OLED, which is an upgraded model of dual edge display, will lead the market until 2017 and then there will be new smartphones with various forms of displays as new types of flexible OLED like full-screen, foldable, rollable displays will be launched after.